Re: Gateway 200x - trouble supplying ECDT table

[Greg Sarjeant <greg-QNIYhHqVzB9kr2E5YSwMOQ@public.gmane.org>]

Thanks, Luming. That patch helped, though it has not completely fixed the problem. I have attached the details to the bug you created. I will submit any future updates to that bug as well, instead of this mailing list.

  Thanks again,
  Greg



On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 12:08:41 +0800
"Yu, Luming" <luming.yu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> >I am sorry that you will receive this twice.
> >I did not send my original reply back to the mailinglist.
> >
> 
> Never mind!
> 
> >  I applied this patch to my 2.4.23 kernel 
> >(started back from the fresh sources and applied the latest ACPI patch
> first)
> 
> After a few investigation on your problem, that patch doesn't apply.
> >From your DSDT, 
> ECDT seems to be  unnecessary to your box.
> 
> >Unfortunately, I'm still getting the same sorts of >>messages on boot. 
> >The _REG method of the Embedded Control fails as follows:
> 
> Obviously, this issue is relative to acpi_ec_space_handler.
>  
> >ACPI: Embedded Controller [H_EC] (gpe 28)
> >evregion-0348: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned
> AE_BAD_PARAMETER
> > dswexec-0435 [30] ds_exec_end_op        : [Store]: Could not resolve
> operands, AE_BAD_PARAMETER
> > psparse-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed
> [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC._REG] (Node df5e7ae8), AE_BAD_PARAMETER
> 
> I just filed a patch for you testing, just try it.
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1744
> 
> Maybe we need to support other access bit width.  I found AccessType:
> DWordAcc in your EC region definition.
> 
> Thanks,
> Luming
> 
> 
> 
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