Re: Intel ACPI

Zdeněk OGAR Skalák
2003-02-05T06:29:06Z

Hi,

Ducrot Bruno wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 04:46:42PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 04:43:59PM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> >
> > > > > Nothing, apart that it will not work reliability with Linux or
> > > > > any flavour of free *BSD.
> > > > I wonder if it's worth allowing the user to override \_OS at boottime.
> > > In fact, I *always* change my \_OS string.
> >
> > Interesting. For any noticable gain ?
>
> S1 and S4bios work better, especially in 2.4 series, if \_OS is set as
> 'Microsoft Windows NT", because this OS have the same kind of support
> for suspending/resuming devices as Linux 2.4 in general...
>
> 2.5 is another story. I am not sure for now what is 'best'.

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 ?

Zdenek OGAR Skalak

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