RE: _OSI (Re: [ACPI] Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica acfreebsd.h)

[Len B. <len...@in...>]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 23:00, Nate Lawson wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Yu, Luming wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Mar 2004, Len Brown wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 21:26, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > > > > Bob, any word on _OSI implementation?
> > > >
> > > > Bob sent me an initial implementation for review today;-)
> > > >
> > > > I'm uncomfortable, however, at claiming to be compatible
> > > with Windows,
> > > > since I don't really have a definition of exactly what that means...
> > > >
> > > > -Len
> > >
> > > Doesn't matter to me.  I plan on claiming to be everything from Win 2k
> > > onward and sort out the rest on the mailing list.  :)
> > >
> > > We already fixed some problems by claiming to be Win 2k for _OS.
> > >
> >
> > Cool! what kind of problems?  :)
> 
> PCI routing.
> 
> -Nate

You don't need to tempt me any more than that!;-)

While I don't like blindly claiming compatibility with something that is
neither specified nor visible, I *do* like the idea of causing the AML
to follow the *tested* path that it follows under Windows.

thanks,
-Len