MAcBook Pro DMI info

Jan 31 08:40:41 elm ACPI: DMI System Vendor: Apple Inc.
Jan 31 08:40:41 elm ACPI: DMI Product Name: MacBookPro3,1
Jan 31 08:40:41 elm ACPI: DMI Product Version: 1.0
Jan 31 08:40:41 elm ACPI: DMI Board Name: Mac-F4238BC8
Jan 31 08:40:41 elm ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: Apple Inc.
Jan 31 08:40:41 elm ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: 09/26/07

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Thanks for the dmidecode.
Looks like we should just match on the string "Apple", since they seem to have cut over from "Apple Computer, Inc." to "Apple Inc."

btw. if you can send me the output from acpidump, I'd like to look it over, since I've not see the MacBookPro3,1 version yet.

thanks,
-Len

...

Thanks for the acpidump.
Apple has added new code BIOS to test OSYS.

But it looks like a NOP for Linux.

I also looks like the Apple BIOS programmers don't realize that Windows 2006 returns true for OSI(Windows 2001). But since they test OSYS only against 0x7D1 and the Darwin value, that bug isn't noticed yet.

cheers,
-Len

    Method (PINI, 0, NotSerialized)
    {
        If (CondRefOf (_OSI, Local0))
        {
            If (_OSI ("Darwin"))
            {
                Store (0x2710, OSYS)
            }
            Else
            {
                If (_OSI ("Linux"))
                {
                    Store (0x03E8, OSYS)
                }
                Else
                {
                    If (_OSI ("Windows 2001"))
                    {
                        Store (0x07D1, OSYS)
                    }
                    Else
                    {
                        If (_OSI ("Windows 2001 SP1"))
                        {
                            Store (0x07D1, OSYS)
                        }
                        Else
                        {
                            If (_OSI ("Windows 2001 SP2"))
                            {
                                Store (0x07D2, OSYS)
                            }
                            Else
                            {
                                If (_OSI ("Windows 2006"))
                                {
                                    Store (0x07D6, OSYS)
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        Else
        {
            Store (0x07D0, OSYS)
        }
    }

Re: OSYS use

                Device (HPET)
                {
                    Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0103"))
                    Name (_CID, 0x010CD041)
                    Name (BUF0, ResourceTemplate ()
                    {
                        IRQNoFlags ()
                            {0}
                        IRQNoFlags ()
                            {8}
                        Memory32Fixed (ReadOnly,
                            0xFED00000,         // Address Base
                            0x00000400,         // Address Length
                            _Y1B)
                    })
                    Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)
                    {
                        If (LGreaterEqual (OSYS, 0x07D1))
                        {
                            If (HPAE)
                            {
                                Return (0x0F)
                            }
                        }
                        Else
                        {
                            If (HPAE)
                            {
# Linux will come here,
# but it doesn't matter, because we don't look at the GUI bits in _STA anyway...

                                Return (0x0B)
                            }
                        }

                        Return (0x00)
                    }
...
# the test for Darwin:

    Method (OSDW, 0, NotSerialized)
    {
        If (LEqual (OSYS, 0x2710))
        {
            Return (0x01)
        }
        Else
        {
            Return (0x00)
        }
    }