RE: _OSI boot hang

[Nate Lawson <nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>]

You're correct.  On a second check, I only found Windows 2001 and above in
terms of ASL checking for OSI strings.

-Nate

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Moore, Robert wrote:
> Not according to the MS white paper on OSI.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/onnow/_OSI-method.mspx
>
>
> Yes, \_OS used strings like "Microsoft Windows NT", but apparently not
> OSI
>
> Bob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Lawson [mailto:nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:36 PM
> To: Brown, Len
> Cc: Moore, Robert; ACPI Developers
> Subject: Re: [ACPI] _OSI boot hang
>
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Len Brown wrote:
> > _OSI is in the ACPI patch on kernel.org and bkbits right now.
> >
> > However, I find that on my Toshiba Satellite Pro, it causes boot to
> hang
> > at Executing all Device _STA and_INI methods.
> >
> > >From ACPICA, it comes this way:
> > drivers/acpi/utilities/utglobal.c
> > const char
> > *acpi_gbl_valid_osi_strings[ACPI_NUM_OSI_STRINGS] = {
> >                        "Linux",
> >                        "Windows 2000",
> >                        "Windows 2001",
> >                        "Windows 2001.1"};
>
> That's not the right string for Win2k.  It's:
>   "Microsoft Windows NT"
>
> Since this is the most popular string, not emulating it is probably
> causing some people problems.
>
> -Nate
>
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