[ltp] Re: Notice to all Lenovo ThinkPad users for kernel 2.6.23+

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> writes:
> > To all Lenovo ThinkPad users, using Linux kernels 2.6.23 or later:
> >
> > If you have any of the newer BIOSes, you probably *have* to add the
> > following kernel parameter to the bootloader, so as to get the ThinkPad
> > firmware to behave:
> >
> > acpi_osi="Linux"
> 
> During boot my system reports:
> 
> [   20.519875] ACPI: System BIOS is requesting _OSI(Linux)
> [   20.519982] ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better,
> [   20.519983] Please send dmidecode to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
> 
> Note that the extra double-quotes around Linux are not present there.
> 
> Is the correct format with, or without, the double-quotes?

The documented format is acpi_osi="Linux".  I don't know if others would
also work.

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