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[Colin King <1049307@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FACP Preferred_PM_Profile  type 3 is a "workstation", DMI type 1c is a
blade, so this looks like the FACP is a little bit misleading.

The FACP should be probably set to one of:

4 -Enterprise Server
5 -SOHO Server
7 - Performance Server

..but probably not 3 (workstation).  This probably needs some discussion
with the BIOS vendor to see if this is really going to affect the way it
works, as the ACPI may be tuned for this profile or perhaps it is a
genuine mistake.


** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  FWTS reports several HIGH failures on an server

Status in “fwts” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Ran fwts as part of the certification suite on a server and noted
  several HIGH level failures causing our test to fail.  All of the
  failures were from the dmi_decode test and I was able to manually
  confirm this.

  The first one is from the Chassis info (Type 3):

  00018 dmi_decode      FAILED [HIGH] DMIInvalidHardwareEntry: Test 1, Unmatched Chassis Type SMBIOS
  00019 dmi_decode      Type 3 reports 1c ACPI FACP reports 3

  Here is the actual output from dmidecode:

  Handle 0x0003, DMI type 3, 22 bytes
  Chassis Information
  	Manufacturer: Acer
  	Type: Blade
  	Lock: Not Present
  	Version:         
  	Serial Number:                       
  	Asset Tag:                       
  	Boot-up State: Safe
  	Power Supply State: Safe
  	Thermal State: Safe
  	Security Status: None
  	OEM Information: 0x00000000
  	Height: Unspecified
  	Number Of Power Cords: 1
  	Contained Elements: 0
  	SKU Number:         

  And the DTMF standard says this in section 7.4 (grokked from the fwts log advice):
  1Ch  Blade. An SMBIOS implementation for a Blade would contain a Type 
  3 Chassis structure for the individual Blade system as well as one for 
  the Blade Enclosure that completes the Blade system.

  The rest are related to several DMIValueOutOfRange errors.  I will let
  you look at those via the log file.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: fwts 0.24.21
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-30.48-generic 3.2.27
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Sep 11 14:31:28 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.3)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:
   TERM=xterm
   LANG=en_US
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: fwts
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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