Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:42:27 -0700 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: ACPI OSI disaster on latest HP laptops - critical temperature shutdown |
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> 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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