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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: "Dmitry A. Marin" <corvax@corvax.ru>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dmidecode output from Benq notebook
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:51:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080121075134.GC8105@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801201408.40945.lenb@kernel.org>

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:08:40PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> 
> OSI(Linux) has no effect on the AML of this machine,
> as OSYS is over-written.  So I'll just kill the warning
> on this box by adding it to the NOP DMI list.

The one thing I worry about is if you aren't including the BIOS
version in the DMI list, you could end up in a situation where one
version of the BIOS treats OSI(Linux) as a no-op, but a newer or an
older version of the BIOS actually does something with it....

BIOS writers can be sneaky that way.  :-)


      	      	     	  	   		  - Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-21  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-15 10:40 dmidecode output from Benq notebook Dmitry A. Marin
2008-01-18 23:56 ` Len Brown
     [not found]   ` <web-56975710@backend13.aha.ru>
2008-01-20 19:08     ` Len Brown
2008-01-21  7:51       ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-01-21 23:22         ` Len Brown
2008-01-22 15:29           ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-23  5:39             ` Len Brown

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