From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: SuperMicro X7DBE ACPI boot messages question Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:09:22 -0600 Message-ID: <4B4E6EC2.2050403@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f187.google.com ([209.85.210.187]:48473 "EHLO mail-yx0-f187.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750822Ab0ANBJZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:09:25 -0500 Received: by yxe17 with SMTP id 17so23017062yxe.33 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:09:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: mike Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On 01/12/2010 11:17 PM, mike wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Supermicro X7DBE system. When it boots, the kernel dmesg output > gives me: > > ACPI: DSDT cff60068 0445A (v01 Intel BLAKFORD 06040000 MSFT 03000001) > ACPI: FACS cff65fc0 00040 > ACPI: APIC cff64536 000C8 (v01 PTLTD ? APIC 06040000 LTP 00000000) > ACPI: MCFG cff645fe 0003C (v01 PTLTD MCFG 06040000 LTP 00000000) > > > The '? APIC' line confuses me and I don't know what this means nor do I > see anywhere it is documented what it means. The machine does work, but > I have an odd problem with virtualbox and it's own apic handling when > running on this machine and I am trying to run down wether the above is > an actual problem on the host, or if it's a red herring. Does anyone > have an idea what this could actually mean? As far as I can see, the ? would be part of the ACPI OEM table ID field in the BIOS ACPI table. I doubt it's related to anything.