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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Developers <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Toshiba ACPI battery status - ACPI errors
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:25:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031124212510.GA9628@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D37200173618752@scsmsx402.sc.intel.com>

Jun,

I'd be happy to provide any data to get this problem fixed... how do I
generate an ACPI dump?  I've never done that before.

Bernt

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 01:04:22PM -0800, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> I suspect this is a known issue with AML code from Toshiba. Their _STA
> does not return a value explicitly, but (wrongly) expects the AML
> interpreter to get the return value returned by the function _STA is
> calling, like
> 	Method (_STA, ....) {
> 		AAA(...)
> 	}
> Instead of 
> 	Method (_STA, ....) {
> 		Return (AAA(...))
> 	}
> 
> If you can provide ACPI dump data of the machine, that would be helpful
> when identifying the cause. Copy the ACPI mailing list and Len.
-- 
Bernt Hansen     Norang Consulting Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-24 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-24 21:04 Toshiba ACPI battery status - ACPI errors Nakajima, Jun
2003-11-24 21:25 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2003-11-24 22:55 ` [ACPI] " Michael Holzt
2003-11-25 10:47   ` Ducrot Bruno
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-24 20:45 Bernt Hansen

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