From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
To: rjw@rjwysocki.net, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
fenghua.yu@intel.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
mchehab+samsung@kernel.org, Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 03/23] Documentation: ACPI: move osi.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 01:52:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190424175306.25880-4-changbin.du@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190424175306.25880-1-changbin.du@gmail.com>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/index.rst | 1 +
.../{acpi/osi.txt => firmware-guide/acpi/osi.rst} | 15 +++++++++------
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/{acpi/osi.txt => firmware-guide/acpi/osi.rst} (97%)
diff --git a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/index.rst b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/index.rst
index 99677c73f1fb..868bd25a3398 100644
--- a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/index.rst
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ ACPI Support
namespace
enumeration
+ osi
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/osi.txt b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/osi.rst
similarity index 97%
rename from Documentation/acpi/osi.txt
rename to Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/osi.rst
index 50cde0ceb9b0..29e9ef79ebc0 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/osi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/osi.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==========================
ACPI _OSI and _REV methods
---------------------------
+==========================
An ACPI BIOS can use the "Operating System Interfaces" method (_OSI)
to find out what the operating system supports. Eg. If BIOS
@@ -14,7 +17,7 @@ This document explains how and why the BIOS and Linux should use these methods.
It also explains how and why they are widely misused.
How to use _OSI
----------------
+===============
Linux runs on two groups of machines -- those that are tested by the OEM
to be compatible with Linux, and those that were never tested with Linux,
@@ -62,7 +65,7 @@ the string when that support is added to the kernel.
That was easy. Read on, to find out how to do it wrong.
Before _OSI, there was _OS
---------------------------
+==========================
ACPI 1.0 specified "_OS" as an
"object that evaluates to a string that identifies the operating system."
@@ -96,7 +99,7 @@ That is the *only* viable strategy, as that is what modern Windows does,
and so doing otherwise could steer the BIOS down an untested path.
_OSI is born, and immediately misused
---------------------------------------
+=====================================
With _OSI, the *BIOS* provides the string describing an interface,
and asks the OS: "YES/NO, are you compatible with this interface?"
@@ -144,7 +147,7 @@ catastrophic failure resulting from the BIOS taking paths that
were never validated under *any* OS.
Do not use _REV
----------------
+===============
Since _OSI("Linux") went away, some BIOS writers used _REV
to support Linux and Windows differences in the same BIOS.
@@ -164,7 +167,7 @@ from mid-2015 onward. The ACPI specification will also be updated
to reflect that _REV is deprecated, and always returns 2.
Apple Mac and _OSI("Darwin")
-----------------------------
+============================
On Apple's Mac platforms, the ACPI BIOS invokes _OSI("Darwin")
to determine if the machine is running Apple OSX.
--
2.20.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-24 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-24 17:52 [PATCH v5 00/23] Include linux ACPI docs into Sphinx TOC tree Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 01/23] Documentation: ACPI: move namespace.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 02/23] Documentation: ACPI: move enumeration.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` Changbin Du [this message]
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 04/23] Documentation: ACPI: move linuxized-acpica.txt to driver-api/acpi " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 05/23] Documentation: ACPI: move scan_handlers.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 06/23] Documentation: ACPI: move DSD-properties-rules.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and covert " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 07/23] Documentation: ACPI: move gpio-properties.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 08/23] Documentation: ACPI: move method-customizing.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 18:08 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 09/23] Documentation: ACPI: move initrd_table_override.txt to admin-guide/acpi " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 10/23] Documentation: ACPI: move dsdt-override.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 11/23] Documentation: ACPI: move i2c-muxes.txt to firmware-guide/acpi " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 12/23] Documentation: ACPI: move acpi-lid.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 13/23] Documentation: ACPI: move dsd/graph.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 14/23] Documentation: ACPI: move dsd/data-node-references.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 18:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 15/23] Documentation: ACPI: move debug.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 16/23] Documentation: ACPI: move method-tracing.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to rsST Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:53 ` [PATCH v5 17/23] Documentation: ACPI: move aml-debugger.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:53 ` [PATCH v5 18/23] Documentation: ACPI: move apei/output_format.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:53 ` [PATCH v5 19/23] Documentation: ACPI: move apei/einj.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:53 ` [PATCH v5 20/23] Documentation: ACPI: move cppc_sysfs.txt to admin-guide/acpi " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 18:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-25 0:44 ` Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:53 ` [PATCH v5 21/23] Documentation: ACPI: move lpit.txt to firmware-guide/acpi " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:53 ` [PATCH v5 22/23] Documentation: ACPI: move ssdt-overlays.txt to admin-guide/acpi " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 17:53 ` [PATCH v5 23/23] Documentation: ACPI: move video_extension.txt to firmware-guide/acpi " Changbin Du
2019-04-24 18:26 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-25 8:44 ` [PATCH v5 00/23] Include linux ACPI docs into Sphinx TOC tree Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-04-25 15:20 ` Changbin Du
2019-05-01 10:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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