From: Thomas Renninger Subject: Provide possibility for vendors to fix BIOS issues for SLE11 only References: none Patch-Mainline: never These BIOS issues generally should be solved in the mainine kernel. But such ACPI interpreter fixes often are very intrusive and impossible to add as a maintenance update. This interface should only be used by vendors in emergency case, e.g. for important pre-loads. Use cases could be: - BIOS cannot generally be fixed because it's already validated against Windows OSes, with this patch a SLE11 specific BIOS fix can be added - Kernel cannot be fixed, because the fix would be too intrusive In most cases both above scenarios would be valid. --- drivers/acpi/acpica/uteval.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/uteval.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/uteval.c @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ static char *acpi_interfaces_supported[] "Windows 2001.1", /* Windows Server 2003 */ "Windows 2001.1 SP1", /* Windows Server 2003 SP1 - Added 03/2006 */ "Windows 2006", /* Windows Vista - Added 03/2006 */ + "SLE11", /* SLE11 identification */ /* Feature Group Strings */