Re: LOTS of ACPI related messages on older Acer server

[Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there Yonetani,

I saw you were preparing an ACPI update. How far away are you from 
comitting it?

Petr

YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:06:19AM +1100, Petr Janda wrote:
>   
> > output of dmesg is attached. Im running DF 1.6.2 on this. They seem not 
> > to interfere but are annoying at least.
> >     ACPI-0252: *** Error: No object was returned from [\\_SB_.PII0._STA] (Node 0xc24012d0), AE_NOT_EXIST
> >     
>
> This may or may not be fixed by turning on the interpreter slack support;
> modify /sys/dev/acpica5/acpi.c as follows and rebuild the acpi.ko and
> reboot:
>
>     /*
>      * Set the globals from our tunables.  This is needed because ACPI-CA
>      * uses UINT8 for some values and we have no tunable_byte.
>      */
>     AcpiGbl_AllMethodsSerialized = (UINT8)acpi_serialize_methods;
>     AcpiGbl_EnableInterpreterSlack = TRUE;	<== ADD THIS
>
> I didn't commit this simple change apart because I saw the following note
> in changes.txt in newer version of ACPI-CA source code:
>
>   12 May 2006. Summary of changes for version 20060512:
>
>   1) ACPI CA Core Subsystem:
> 				:
>   Fixed a possible memory leak associated with the support for the
>   so-called "implicit return" ACPI extension. Reported by FreeBSD,
>   BZ #6514. (Fiodor Suietov)
>
> Cheers.
>
>