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No need: the bios can present different acpi tables depending on the OS who is asking for them. all it takes is a switch (case when..statement. So there was no
by 1996 8y ago
No need: the bios can present different acpi tables depending on the OS who is asking for them. all it takes is a switch (case when..statement.
So there was no reason whatsoever to remove the code.
- makomk 8y agoBecause so many BIOSes provide completely broken ACPI tables to non-Windows OSes, I think Linux reports itself as being Windows to the ACPI code these days. So no, it probably can't.