Christopher, no, making the assumption that something may be "fixed" by a BIOS update, which contains no documentation relevant to the issue, is exactly that; an assumption. There is no evidence that suggests a BIOS update would fix something that is not documented in the release notes for the update.
This is a bug report against the Linux kernel, not against the Intel MQ77 BIOS. There is no reason to assume it is a problem with the BIOS. The bug has existed for well over a year now, and assuming that it is going to be magically fixed with a BIOS update is nonsense. The history of the report clearly shows it has been accepted as a valid bug report by upstream (whom as I already stated, is an Intel device driver developer, working for Intel), against the kernel.
I am not going to waste time trying to update to a new BIOS and performing the tedious procedure of testing the issue, when there is absolutely zero evidence that it could have any impact on the issue at all.
Christopher, no, making the assumption that something may be "fixed" by a BIOS update, which contains no documentation relevant to the issue, is exactly that; an assumption. There is no evidence that suggests a BIOS update would fix something that is not documented in the release notes for the update.
This is a bug report against the Linux kernel, not against the Intel MQ77 BIOS. There is no reason to assume it is a problem with the BIOS. The bug has existed for well over a year now, and assuming that it is going to be magically fixed with a BIOS update is nonsense. The history of the report clearly shows it has been accepted as a valid bug report by upstream (whom as I already stated, is an Intel device driver developer, working for Intel), against the kernel.
I am not going to waste time trying to update to a new BIOS and performing the tedious procedure of testing the issue, when there is absolutely zero evidence that it could have any impact on the issue at all.