From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] ACPI: add DMI to enable OSI(Linux) on ThinkPad T61 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:50:00 +0000 Message-ID: <20080121095000.GA2785@srcf.ucam.org> References: <200801192313.10296.lenb@kernel.org> <47933886.7050401@dbservice.com> <200801201331.59478.lenb@kernel.org> <20080121015238.GA8105@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([78.32.9.130]:59784 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758530AbYAUJ5e (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:57:34 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080121015238.GA8105@mit.edu> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso Cc: Len Brown , Tomas Carnecky , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 08:52:38PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > 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. I'd prefer to figure out what they're actually doing with it, since clearly Windows doesn't need this. I'm not especially comfortable with the S3 video stuff, but it seems safer - I just strongly suspect that giving vendors a "Please reinitialise video when exiting S3" option will be abused as a general "Linux" indicator. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org