[ltp] Re: ACPI S3 works fine on T41p (Was: ACPI sleep works first time)

[Alexander Gran]

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Am Donnerstag, 26. August 2004 00:26 schrieb Volker Braun:
> What makes you think that? I tried various acpi_os_name's, and found no
> difference, in S3 suspend my T41 always uses about 5W.

Windows does not need that much. Either a driver is doing magic there (Why 
should IBM), or acpi.

> It is true that IBM's dsdt checks for os names (the mere possibility to
> do so is already a horrible acpi misfeature, what were those people
> thinking). And the detected os changes the program flow in the dsdt at

ACK!

> many places, but I have no clue what precisely IBM is doing here.

;-) Neither here.

> Interestingly, there is a LNUX name but this is nowhere used. The dsdt
> also checks for _REV>=2, but every implementation probably satisfies that.

Hmm. It is a register/variable (or whatever..) like the ones where IBM stores 
the windows version. No Idea why it's there..

regards
Alex

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