From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nate Lawson Subject: RE: _OSI boot hang Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:58:30 -0800 (PST) Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20040317145746.B3595@root.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Moore, Robert" Cc: "Brown, Len" , ACPI Developers List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > _______________________________________________ > Acpi-devel mailing list > Acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click