Lines Matching refs:OS

24 but where Linux was installed to replace the original OS (Windows or OSX).
71 interpreter in the kernel would return to it a string identifying the OS:
77 The idea was on a platform tasked with running multiple OS's,
78 the BIOS could use _OS to enable devices that an OS
80 necessary to make the platform compatible with that pre-existing OS.
83 of every possible version of the OS that would run on it, and needed to know
84 all the quirks of those OS's.  Certainly it would make more sense
85 for the BIOS to ask *specific* things of the OS, such
102 and asks the OS: "YES/NO, are you compatible with this interface?"
104 eg. _OSI("3.0 Thermal Model") would return TRUE if the OS knows how
106 An old OS that doesn't know about those extensions would answer FALSE,
107 and a new OS may be able to return TRUE.
109 For an OS-specific interface, the ACPI spec said that the BIOS and the OS
114 the OS version, rather than an OS supported interface.  Indeed, right
144 were never validated under *any* OS.
153 supported by the OS and the OS AML interpreter.