Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST

Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-27T02:14:17Z

On Tue, 27 May 2008 10:13:02 +0900
> BTW, PrimeQuest's firmware is designed in 2.6.18 age and _heavily_
> tested under _OSI("Linux") environments. So, the acpi layer which
> returns _OSI("Linux") is valid for PrimeQuest. I don't hear a major
> firmware update for already-sold-hosts is scheduled.
>
the problem really is that 2.6.18 isn't 2.6.25. OSI("Linux") is really
the wrong thing to do!
Not even microsoft does that.. they have very version specific OSI
strings.

Can you work with your colleges in the BIOS team to make sure that no
future BIOS will use OSI("Linux") please? If there's something they
would want to disable because of a Linux bug.. the real solution is to
fix the Linux bug!