[OpenIndiana-discuss] ACPI errors

[Yuri Pankov]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:39:00 -0400, Gordon Ross wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, "Weiergräber, Oliver H."
> <o.h.weiergraeber at fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> while testing OpenIndiana (and Solaris 11) on an HP xw8600 workstation,
>> I noticed messages like this occurring regularly during bootup:
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 879926 kern.notice] ACPI Error: [CAPD] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20100915/dsfield-231)
>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 100000 kern.notice]
>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 804433 kern.notice] **** Exception AE_ALREADY_EXISTS during execution of method [\_SB_.PCI0._OSC] (Node ffffff02d59a8e80)
>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 100000 kern.notice]
>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 652514 kern.notice] Method Execution Stack:
>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 489567 kern.notice] Method [_OSC] executing: CreateDWordField (CAPB, Local1, CAPD)
> [...]
>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 342246 kern.notice] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0._OSC] (Node ffffff02d59a8e80), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20100915/psparse-632)
>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 117524 kern.notice] ACPI: Marking method _OSC as Serialized because of AE_ALREADY_EXISTS error
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> What kind of ACPI problem is indicated here? Anything to worry about? I did notice stability issues on Solaris 11, but not on OpenIndiana, so I guess these are unrelated to the ACPI stuff.
>> The BIOS version is the latest available for this machine.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Oliver
>
> When I was last working on an ACPI update (which I think is what's
> currently in illumos and OI) Yuri Pankov was helping me test the code,
> and observed a problem on his HP laptop that looked something like
> this, if I recall correctly.  He did some further experimenting and
> found that he could make his laptop boot without the ACPI errors by
> attaching the "EC" device a bit later.
>
> He showed me a possible fix, which I asked him to do some more work
> on, but then he ran out of time or something.  Maybe you'd like to
> pick up his changes and try them?

ACPICA 20100915 isn't the latest version available at the moment (at 
least in illumos tree), which means that you are missing some fixes 
Gordon did. Please try upgrading your OpenIndiana installation first and 
check if it helps.