greeze Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 What are all the platform flags, and what do they do? I know about the existence of x86pc and ACPI... But now I read that you can do both at the same time? (platform=ACPI|x86pc) What does this accomplish? And what platform is being loaded when I don't use a platform flag at all? It's apparently neither ACPI nor x86pc since it behaves differently from both of those on my machine. Mostly just curious. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadnerb Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 *bump* i'd like to know this too. they seem to do different things each time i try them eg, sometimes with ACPI it shows a battery icon, sometimes it doesnt, sometimes it shutsdown ok, sometimes it hangs. its really confusing actually would it be case sensitive? Platform=ACPI platform=acpi would both do the same thing? also i see some people say you should type it like: "Platform=ACPI" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaexprojectxd Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 no its not case sensitive. if i boot with acpi, i type ---- platform=acpi ----, if i boot with x86 i boot ----platform=x86pc---- nothing wrong. but it seems my wireless pcmcia card hangs my system in acpi mode............i do miss having my battery icon when in x86 mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollo Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 how about booting with platform=ADP2,1 or something along those lines? I know that stands for apple development platform and that some people's xbench reports that as model. Anybody given it a whirl? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judy Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 But now I read that you can do both at the same time? (platform=ACPI|x86pc) What does this accomplish? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is just a way to state that it's either ACPI or X86PC. So typing platform=ACPI|X86PC is invalid and should have the same effect as typing nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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