Re: ACPI OSI disaster on latest HP laptops - critical temperatureshutdown

[Andi Kleen]

> 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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