From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 13:43:08 +0200 Message-ID: <20080525114308.GA5237@ucw.cz> References: <4816F9B9.3090609@jp.fujitsu.com> <4836660B.3080406@jp.fujitsu.com> <483667A4.9000606@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:4221 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755390AbYEYLnQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 07:43:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <483667A4.9000606@jp.fujitsu.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Taku Izumi Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri 2008-05-23 15:43:48, Taku Izumi wrote: > This patch adds DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on > PRIMEQUEST. > (PRIMEQUEST is ia64 machine.) Why is it needed? Why needs your bios know whether it is Linux or BSD or whatver running? -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html