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Subject[PATCH 04/23] acpi doc: convert acpi/osi.txt to rst format
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This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/acpi/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/acpi/{osi.txt => osi.rst} | 13 +++++++------
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/acpi/{osi.txt => osi.rst} (97%)

diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/index.rst b/Documentation/acpi/index.rst
index 624eb95e982b..1b5459e46533 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/index.rst
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ Linux ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)

namespace
enumeration
+ osi
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/osi.txt b/Documentation/acpi/osi.rst
similarity index 97%
rename from Documentation/acpi/osi.txt
rename to Documentation/acpi/osi.rst
index 50cde0ceb9b0..47aaedd1013a 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/osi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/osi.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+==========================
ACPI _OSI and _REV methods
---------------------------
+==========================

An ACPI BIOS can use the "Operating System Interfaces" method (_OSI)
to find out what the operating system supports. Eg. If BIOS
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ This document explains how and why the BIOS and Linux should use these methods.
It also explains how and why they are widely misused.

How to use _OSI
----------------
+===============

Linux runs on two groups of machines -- those that are tested by the OEM
to be compatible with Linux, and those that were never tested with Linux,
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ the string when that support is added to the kernel.
That was easy. Read on, to find out how to do it wrong.

Before _OSI, there was _OS
---------------------------
+==========================

ACPI 1.0 specified "_OS" as an
"object that evaluates to a string that identifies the operating system."
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ That is the *only* viable strategy, as that is what modern Windows does,
and so doing otherwise could steer the BIOS down an untested path.

_OSI is born, and immediately misused
---------------------------------------
+=====================================

With _OSI, the *BIOS* provides the string describing an interface,
and asks the OS: "YES/NO, are you compatible with this interface?"
@@ -144,7 +145,7 @@ catastrophic failure resulting from the BIOS taking paths that
were never validated under *any* OS.

Do not use _REV
----------------
+===============

Since _OSI("Linux") went away, some BIOS writers used _REV
to support Linux and Windows differences in the same BIOS.
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ from mid-2015 onward. The ACPI specification will also be updated
to reflect that _REV is deprecated, and always returns 2.

Apple Mac and _OSI("Darwin")
-----------------------------
+============================

On Apple's Mac platforms, the ACPI BIOS invokes _OSI("Darwin")
to determine if the machine is running Apple OSX.
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