Re: ACPI OSI disaster on latest HP laptops - critical temperature shutdown

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Sat Aug 02 2008 - 15:50:18 EST


On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 02:49:58PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> Correction: special case ALL non-windows. There's a reason why I said
> ACPICA should provide OSI(NonWindows).

The only two operating systems of any significance that can run on
generic hardware are Windows and Linux. Given that BIOS authors hate the
human race, OSI(NonWindows) is equivalent to OSI(Linux).

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