Re: dmidecode output from Benq notebook

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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
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