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ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0270): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Invalid _PSS data [20060707]

Bug #75862 reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
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linux-source-2.6.19 (Ubuntu)
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Medium
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Bug Description

Dec 15 10:16:55 localhost kernel: [ 37.919407] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-30 processors (version 2.00.00)
Dec 15 10:16:55 localhost kernel: [ 37.941930] ACPI: Invalid package argument
Dec 15 10:16:55 localhost kernel: [ 37.964173] ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0270): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Invalid _PSS data [20060707]
Dec 15 10:16:55 localhost kernel: [ 37.995547] powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x12
Dec 15 10:16:55 localhost kernel: [ 38.019088] powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x4
Dec 15 10:16:55 localhost kernel: [ 38.043868] powernow-k8: ph2 null fid transition 0x8

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Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) wrote :

Can you please explain under what circumstances this happens? Why is it a problem? Please also attach the output of the following commands:

dmesg
sudo lspci -vv
sudo lspci -vvn
sudo dmidecode

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Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) wrote :

Obviously, this happens at bootup. I wasn't yet able to test 2.6.20, since the restricted modules aren't yet available as package.

Requested info is attached.

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Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) wrote :
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Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) wrote :
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Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) wrote :
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Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) wrote :

See
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6782
for the discussion (same machine, different kernel!)

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Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) wrote :

Thanks for quickly providing the information. Now please be patient until a developer has the time to take a look into this. Thanks again.

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Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) wrote :

I updated the BIOS, let's see how it goes.
Differences in dmidecode output are:

$ diff -u dmidecode dmidecode.new
--- dmidecode 2006-12-15 15:40:43.000000000 +0100
+++ dmidecode.new 2006-12-16 16:19:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # dmidecode 2.8
 SMBIOS 2.3 present.
 15 structures occupying 773 bytes.
-Table at 0x000FAAF0.
+Table at 0x000FAB00.

 Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes
 BIOS Information
        Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
- Version: A1013AM7 V3.50
- Release Date: 08/24/2005
+ Version: A1013AM7 V3.70
+ Release Date: 09/26/2005
        Address: 0xF0000
        Runtime Size: 64 kB
        ROM Size: 512 kB

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote :

BIOS bug, not a kernel bug.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.19:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
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