Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun May 25 2008 - 07:43:42 EST


On Fri 2008-05-23 15:43:48, Taku Izumi wrote:
> This patch adds DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on
> PRIMEQUEST.
> (PRIMEQUEST is ia64 machine.)

Why is it needed? Why needs your bios know whether it is Linux or BSD
or whatver running?

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