Re: ACPI error during boot

From: David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2000 - 00:40:24 EDT

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    Hmm. I doubt it is fixed. Of the dozens of different machines I have, I have
    yet to find one that doesn't blabber errors or warnings on boot about ACPI.

    -d

    "Grover, Andrew" wrote:

    > Hi Sasa,
    >
    > Basically, it looks like it's trying to find out which sleep states your pc
    > supports, but the data being returned is not in the format expected (the
    > code is at linux/drivers/acpi/hardware/hwregs.c line 176 if you're
    > interested).
    >
    > It *should* be fixed, but I don't think it will hurt anything for it to be
    > temporarily broken...
    >
    > Regards -- Andy
    >
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: Sasa Ostrouska [mailto:maja.ostrouska@kiss.uni-lj.si]
    >
    > > Hello to everybody !
    > >
    > > I'm using the linux-2.4.0.test6 kernel and I noticed the
    > > following error during the boot time:
    > >
    > >
    > > devfs: v0.102 (20000622) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
    > > devfs: boot_options: 0x0
    > > kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - nfs_fh
    > > ACPI: support found
    > > ACPI: PBLK 1 @ 0x4010:6
    > > ACPI: -0176: <7>ACPI: *** Error: Object type returned from
    > > interpreter differs from expected value
    > > ACPI: -0176: <7>ACPI: *** Error: Object type returned from
    > > interpreter differs from expected value
    > > ACPI: S1 supported
    > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
    > > Mounted devfs on /dev
    > >
    > >
    > > Can somebody explain what this is and if it has to be fixed some way ?
    > >
    > > I have an SMP dual PII350 box.
    > >
    > > Thank you in advance and best regards
    >
    > >
    >
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