Re: ACPI error during boot

From: David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Date: Mon Aug 14 2000 - 23:40:24 EST


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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