On 07/31/2013 08:14 AM, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>" Windows operating systems return 0xFFFFFFFF if the argument to the
>_OSI method specifies an earlier version of Windows. For example,
>Windows 7 returns 0xFFFFFFFF for both “Windows 2009” (Windows 7) and
>“Windows 2006” (Windows Vista®)."
>
>This would imply that all moder windows versions return 0xFFFFFFFF
>in response to querying Windows 2001.
>
>To see what a modern Linux supports, see
>drivers/acpi/acpica/utosi.c
>
>Looks like the result of this patch is to always disable
>the 64 bit window?
Yep, patch is not valid.
Did you look further into this? It would be useful for pvpanic as well.
From my quick research, it looks like "Windows 2006" || "Windows
2006.1" || "Linux" would work, but I have not tested it.
Paolo
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