RE: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 1/1] patch to fix acpi_memhotplug.c

Erik Slagter
2005-11-19T10:44:03Z

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On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 12:51 -0800, Moore, Robert wrote:

[ ... ]

> {
> /* Operating System Vendor Strings */
>
> "Linux",
> "Windows 2000",
> "Windows 2001",
> "Windows 2001.1",
> "Windows 2001 SP0",
> "Windows 2001 SP1",
> "Windows 2001 SP2",
> "Windows 2001 SP3",
> "Windows 2001 SP4",
>
> /* Feature Group Strings */
>
> "Extended Address Space Descriptor"
> };

Can you please explain to me what is the relation between ACPI and a
certain OS implementation, seen from the BIOS code? I always failed to
see that, I thought ACPI was to be OS-independent?

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