From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
"Yu, Ling L" <ling.l.yu@intel.com>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
tytso@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: acpi.sourceforge.net DSDT collection - Get acpidumps for research
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:06:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080418230601.GA10935@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1208540512.31815.74.camel@linux-2bdv.site>
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 07:41:52PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> For vendors who want and will provide osi Vista SPX BIOS updates and
> also want to reliably support Linux, they have to compile
> osi="Linux Distribution I support" to return true into their Linux
> kernels.
Providing OSI only makes sense if we can commit to providing a stable
interface. We can't make that commitment, so it makes no sense to
provide it. If Suse are willing to make that commitment within a
release, then go for it - but do bear in mind that it may restrict the
bug fixes you can make.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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2008-04-18 17:41 acpi.sourceforge.net DSDT collection - Get acpidumps for research Thomas Renninger
2008-04-18 23:06 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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