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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] ACPI: Notify the _PPC evaluation status to the platform
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:57:25 -0500 (EST)
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Looking at the ACPI 4.0 spec, it appears that we need to
set bit 1 of the platform-wide _OSC capabilities DWORD2
to indicate to the firmware that we will evaluate _OST
on _PPC changes, yes?

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center