From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] ACPI: add DMI to enable OSI(Linux) on ThinkPad T61 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:52:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20080121015238.GA8105@mit.edu> References: <200801192313.10296.lenb@kernel.org> <47933886.7050401@dbservice.com> <200801201331.59478.lenb@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:53621 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755202AbYAUBxH (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:53:07 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200801201331.59478.lenb@kernel.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: Tomas Carnecky , Matthew Garrett , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 01:31:59PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > We as the Linux community can define "Needs BIOS S3 video restore" as a string > and ship it in our kernel, telling BIOS writers about it. Maybe we should define the S3 video strong right away, along with whatever else Lenovo was trying to use OSI(Linux) for, and then get the distro's to ship Errata kernels that answer yes for those questions ASAP. Then we can work with Laptop vendors to release new BIOS's that use the new OSI strings instead of Linux, since they can just tell people that they need to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu/SLES kernel. Hopefully, this would allow us to recover from this mess as quickly as possible. - Ted