linux-kernel - Re: ACPI OSI disaster on latest HP laptops

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Date:	Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:42:27 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
CC:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-acpi <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christian Kornacker <ckornacker@...e.de>
Subject: Re: ACPI OSI disaster on latest HP laptops - critical temperature
 shutdown


> If vendors use _OSI(Windows) to work around Windows bugs, we get broken
> automatically on those systems unless we put in some DMI-based hacks.

The general goal of ACPICA is to be bug-to-bug compatible with Windows.
So it might be needed for ACPICA to just emulate the respective bugs.

That said for this case I don't think that's needed, Linux just has to
detect the workarounds (which it already does I think)

-Andi

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