Re: 2.6.17-mm5 - ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0272): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Invalid _PSS data [20060623]

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Brown, Len <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 1. message was always there, but was disabled before.
> 
> 	Please build a previous kernel that doesn't show
> 	this message (say 2.6.17) with CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y
> 	and report if you see the same message.
> 
> 	Note that the patch that enabled these messages
> 	had been in mm before for several months
> 	and just dropped out for a bit before -mm4,
> 	so you might see this in earlier -mm's too.

2.6.17.3:

Jul  1 22:23:40 knarzkiste kernel: powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.60.2)
Jul  1 22:23:40 knarzkiste kernel: acpi_utils-0066 [04] extract_package       : Invalid 'package' argument
Jul  1 22:23:40 knarzkiste kernel: acpi_processor-0277 [03] processor_get_performa: Invalid _PSS data
Jul  1 22:23:40 knarzkiste kernel: powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV)
Jul  1 22:23:40 knarzkiste kernel: powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x4 (1450 mV)
Jul  1 22:23:40 knarzkiste kernel: cpu_init done, current fid 0x8, vid 0x2
Jul  1 22:23:40 knarzkiste kernel: powernow-k8: ph2 null fid transition 0x8

So you were right.

> 2. Some other regression
> 
> 	Lets hope not.
> 
> In any case, it would be good to get to the root cause.
> Please open a bugzilla here:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI
> and attach the output from acpidump found in the
> latest pmtools here:
> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils/

Done
 
> After the above, you might also check for an updated BIOS.

Updates are a bit hard, without windows :(

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