Re: Intel ACPI

Dave Jones
2003-02-05T12:30:49Z

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:29:06AM +0100, Zdenìk OGAR Skalák wrote:
> So could we add kernel boot argument to allow changig/overriding the \_OS
> string? Eg. acpi_os="Microsoft Windows NT" to allow us to play with it without
> rekompiling the kernel ?

A bootarg does seem to be the most sensible way to do it. You need
to set it early enough so that you catch everything. Doing it later
through a sysctl or the like would be too late, and doing it statically
at compile time would make it useless for vendor kernels.

Dave

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