kern/121504: [patch] Correctly set hw.acpi.osname on certain
machines
Anish Mistry
amistry at am-productions.biz
Sun Nov 2 13:30:04 PST 2008
The following reply was made to PR kern/121504; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Anish Mistry <amistry at am-productions.biz>
To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: kern/121504: [patch] Correctly set hw.acpi.osname on certain machines
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:59:02 -0400
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On Friday 31 October 2008, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> If you are still feeling adventurous, please try the attached
> patch. Note that _OSI is very different from _OS_ and we cannot
> reuse "hw.acpi.osname" tunable here. First of all, _OSI method
> must be able to match multiple entries, not just predefined OS
> strings, e.g., "3.0 Thermal Model", "Extended Address Space
> Descriptor", etc. although nobody really uses these 'feature group
> strings' for their BIOS implementations. (Ideally, if there is a
> device driver which implemented the feature, the driver is
> responsible for registering its capabilities to this table.)
>
> With the attached patch, you can add multiple entries by setting
> "hw.acpi.supported_osi" tunable and they must be comma-separated,
> e.g.:
Still no change on my system, but it seems that this would be good to=20
get in as it might help other people.
=2D-=20
Anish Mistry
amistry at am-productions.biz
AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/
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