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Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([104.238.181.70]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c14sm2643363pgj.94.2019.04.25.08.31.52 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:31:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Changbin Du To: rjw@rjwysocki.net, Jonathan Corbet Subject: [PATCH v6 04/24] Documentation: ACPI: move osi.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 23:30:57 +0800 Message-Id: <20190425153117.16057-5-changbin.du@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20190425153117.16057-1-changbin.du@gmail.com> References: <20190425153117.16057-1-changbin.du@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com, mchehab+samsung@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Changbin Du Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" 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 Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- 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