On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 01:34:05AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Christian Steiner > <christian.stei...@outlook.de> wrote: > > >>> Currently I am using BIOS v1.22. Recently Acer released v1.23. I could > >>> test if the BIOS update solves the problem. > >> > >> Please try that first. > > > > Updating the BIOS to v1.23 solved the problem. Thank you very much for > > your advice! > > Not that I know how the Intel ecosystem works wrt this. > > Do you detect elder BIOS and display a warning? Are regular > users updating their BIOSes? Or was this some kind of development > Intel in-house BIOS?
People do upgrade their BIOSes but for Linux users it has some extra pain if the OEM only provides you a .exe file which you need to run under Windows. It is possible to detect the BIOS version using DMI strings and issue a warning in the driver, if that's what you mean, but currently we don't do that.
