Description of problem: Booting kernel-2.6.27.3-27.rc1.fc10.i686 on a Medion E1210 (An MSI Wind variant) issues this message: # dmesg | grep DMI DMI 2.4 present. ACPI: DMI System Vendor: MEDION ACPI: DMI Product Name: E1210 ACPI: DMI Product Version: Ver.001 ACPI: DMI Board Name: E1210 ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: American Megatrends Inc. ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: 08/20/2008 ACPI: Please send DMI info above to linux-acpi.org I have no idea what this is supposed to mean, but thought, you should better know. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Today's rawhide kernel-2.6.27.3-27.rc1.fc10.i686 Additional info: This had been reported to linux-acpi.org, before http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=121741203902087&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=121537997411172&w=2
nothing to worry about, and if you've reported it upstream, all is good. They seem to be collecting some sort of database of BIOSes that have codepaths explicitly for Linux.
(In reply to comment #1) > nothing to worry about, and if you've reported it upstream, all is good. I haven't, but others had reported it against 2.6.26 back in July (cf. #1) > They > seem to be collecting some sort of database of BIOSes that have codepaths > explicitly for Linux. OK, then something seems to have slipped through the cracks of kernel development since 2.6.26, somewhere ;)