From: Sergey Vlasov <vsu-u2l5PoMzF/Uox3rIn2DAYQ@public.gmane.org>
To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: meaning of sizeof(_OS)?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:14:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040126211457.7182417a.vsu@altlinux.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040126111648.GA2004@luna.mooo.com
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:16:48 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote:
> Was wondering at least theoretically what is supposed to be done
> different by the dsdt if the os is M$ NT/XP since I saw there is an
> explicit check of _OS against "Microsoft Windows NT".
> Also I saw some people talking about a size check of the _OS variable
> against 0x14 to see if its the M$ os. In my dsdt the check is for some
> reason against 0x27, any idea what os its looking for? (is LEqual less
> then or equall or does the L mean something else?)
0x27 is probably "Microsoft WindowsME:Millennium Edition".
(I have seen a DSDT which compares strings in one place and checks
length in another place...)
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2004-01-26 11:16 meaning of sizeof(_OS)? Micha Feigin
2004-01-26 18:14 ` Sergey Vlasov [this message]
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2004-01-26 18:20 ` greg
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