From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Do not return true to all kind of Windows OSI calls Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 17:59:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20080802165952.GA30580@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1217632817.4610.6.camel@hidalgo> <1217696279-23848-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:36929 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754818AbYHBQ75 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:59:57 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1217696279-23848-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: corsac@debian.org, ak@linux.intel.com, rui.zhang@intel.com, nokos@gmx.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, hmh@debian.org On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 06:57:57PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > ThinkPads store OSI calls in separate variables and later > check for NT/XP/VISTA specific code to process. > > I lately saw a line on a ThinkPad checking for XP and VISTA > at video device specific code. > > So currently some ThinkPads run into code paths which should > either run on XP or VISTA, but Linux might execute them both > or in a way that is not intended by BIOS developers. Could you please show the code in question? I think you're misdiagnosing the issue. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org