Lines Matching refs:OS
24 but where Linux was installed to replace the original OS (Windows or OSX).
53 is checked into Linux, the OS will answer "YES" when the BIOS
55 by the OS. Linux distributors can back-port that patch for Linux
74 interpreter in the kernel would return to it a string identifying the OS:
80 The idea was on a platform tasked with running multiple OS's,
81 the BIOS could use _OS to enable devices that an OS
83 necessary to make the platform compatible with that pre-existing OS.
86 of every possible version of the OS that would run on it, and needed to know
87 all the quirks of those OS's. Certainly it would make more sense
88 for the BIOS to ask *specific* things of the OS, such
105 and asks the OS: "YES/NO, are you compatible with this interface?"
107 eg. _OSI("3.0 Thermal Model") would return TRUE if the OS knows how
109 An old OS that doesn't know about those extensions would answer FALSE,
110 and a new OS may be able to return TRUE.
112 For an OS-specific interface, the ACPI spec said that the BIOS and the OS
117 the OS version, rather than an OS supported interface. Indeed, right
147 were never validated under *any* OS.
156 supported by the OS and the OS AML interpreter.