ACPI on Intel SE7501WV2

["Bernard Normier" <bernard-jCTGDdqZGLzlLTHTg0CpQwC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>]

The Intel SE7501WV2 is a dual Xeon server motherboard. Power management is 
not a concern ... but stability is. When I boot with 2.6.8-1.521smp (latest 
Fedora Core 2), or my own 2.6.9-rc3 smp kernel build, the log shows 2 
ACPI-related issues:

- with USB enabled in the BIOS, dmesg shows:

hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
irq 169: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 169: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
 [<021074d6>] __report_bad_irq+0x3a/0x77
 [<02107572>] note_interrupt+0x43/0x66
 [<021078c4>] do_IRQ+0x19d/0x225
handlers:
[<0225a679>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4b)
Disabling IRQ #169

If I disable USB support in the BIOS, this error goes away. That's ok for 
me, since I don't use the USB ports on these servers.

- I always get these warnings:

PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb75, last bus=4
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
    ACPI-0562: *** Warning: Type override - [DEB_] had invalid type 
(Integer) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
    ACPI-0562: *** Warning: Type override - [MLIB] had invalid type 
(Integer) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
    ACPI-0562: *** Warning: Type override - [DATA] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
    ACPI-0562: *** Warning: Type override - [SIO_] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
    ACPI-0562: *** Warning: Type override - [LEDP] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
    ACPI-0562: *** Warning: Type override - [GPEN] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
    ACPI-0562: *** Warning: Type override - [GPST] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
    ACPI-0562: *** Warning: Type override - [WUES] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
    ACPI-0562: *** Warning: Type override - [WUSE] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
    ACPI-0562: *** Warning: Type override - [SBID] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
    ACPI-0562: *** Warning: Type override - [SWCE] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
ACPI: Interpreter enabled

Interestingly, disassembling /proc/acpi/dsdt with iasl shows the same 
warnings/errors. This is the top of dsdt.dsl:
dswload-0697: *** Warning: Type override - [DEB_] had invalid type (Integer) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
 dswload-0697: *** Warning: Type override - [MLIB] had invalid type 
(Integer) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
 dswload-0697: *** Warning: Type override - [DATA] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
 dswload-0697: *** Warning: Type override - [SIO_] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
 dswload-0697: *** Warning: Type override - [LEDP] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
 dswload-0697: *** Warning: Type override - [GPEN] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
 dswload-0697: *** Warning: Type override - [GPST] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
 dswload-0697: *** Warning: Type override - [WUES] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
 dswload-0697: *** Warning: Type override - [WUSE] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
 dswload-0697: *** Warning: Type override - [SBID] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
 dswload-0697: *** Warning: Type override - [SWCE] had invalid type (String) 
for Scope operator, changed to (Scope)
/*
 * Intel ACPI Component Architecture
 * AML Disassembler version 20040715
 *
 * Disassembly of dsdt.txt, Sat Oct  9 10:16:55 2004
 */
DefinitionBlock ("DSDT.aml", "DSDT", 1, "INTEL", "SWV25", 256)
{
[...]

and if I try to compile this dsdt.dsl with iasl -ta, I get this error:

Intel ACPI Component Architecture
ASL Optimizing Compiler / AML Disassembler version 20040715 [Oct  9 2004]
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2004 Intel Corporation
Supports ACPI Specification Revision 2.0c

dsdt.dsl     1:  dswl         Method (_REG, 2, NotSerialized)
Error    1037 -     ^ syntax error, unexpected PARSEOP_NAMESEG, expecting 
PARSEOP_DEFINITIONBLOCK

ASL Input:  dsdt.dsl - 2364 lines, 74375 bytes, 0 keywords
Compilation complete. 1 Errors, 0 Warnings, 0 Remarks, 0 Optimizations

Can I safely ignore all these warnings, since I don't use power management 
on these servers?

If you'd like more details (such as the full dmesg, dmidecode output) I'd be 
happy to send them.

Thanks,
Bernard












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