Asus Eee 901Go ACPI errors on 2.6.30-rc4-git4

Asus Eee 901Go ACPI errors on 2.6.30-rc4-git4

[Mario Lang]

Hi.

Booting 2.6.30-rc4-git4 on an Asus Eee 901Go I get the following in dmesg:

[   27.005071] ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode.
[   27.548097] ACPI Exception (evregion-0422): AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] [20090320]
[   27.548139] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_.BST1] (Node f7033d4c), AE_TIME
[   27.548280] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.CBST] (Node f70366f8), AE_TIME
[   27.548393] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.BAT0._BST] (Node f7034c48), AE_TIME
[   27.548521] ACPI Exception (battery-0385): AE_TIME, Evaluating _BST [20090320]

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Regards,
      Mario Lang

Graz University of Technology        mailto:mlang@TUGraz.at
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Re: Asus Eee 901Go ACPI errors on 2.6.30-rc4-git4

[Alan Jenkins]

On 5/8/09, Mario Lang <mlang@tugraz.at> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Booting 2.6.30-rc4-git4 on an Asus Eee 901Go I get the following in dmesg:
>
> [   27.005071] ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode.
> [   27.548097] ACPI Exception (evregion-0422): AE_TIME, Returned by Handler
> for [EmbeddedControl] [20090320]
> [   27.548139] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
> [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_.BST1] (Node f7033d4c), AE_TIME
> [   27.548280] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
> [\_SB_.PCI0.CBST] (Node f70366f8), AE_TIME
> [   27.548393] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
> [\_SB_.PCI0.BAT0._BST] (Node f7034c48), AE_TIME
> [   27.548521] ACPI Exception (battery-0385): AE_TIME, Evaluating _BST
> [20090320]

Odd.  Did this happen in 2.6.29?

If so - I think there's only one significant EC change since 2.6.29,
you could try reverting that.

34ff4dbccccce54c83b1234d39b7ad9e548a75dd "ACPI: EC: Separate delays
for MSI hardware"

Alan

Re: Asus Eee 901Go ACPI errors on 2.6.30-rc4-git4

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:46:05PM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> On 5/8/09, Mario Lang <mlang@tugraz.at> wrote:
> >
> > Booting 2.6.30-rc4-git4 on an Asus Eee 901Go I get the following in dmesg:
> >
> > [   27.005071] ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode.
> > [   27.548097] ACPI Exception (evregion-0422): AE_TIME, Returned by Handler
> > for [EmbeddedControl] [20090320]
> > [   27.548139] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
> > [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_.BST1] (Node f7033d4c), AE_TIME
> > [   27.548280] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
> > [\_SB_.PCI0.CBST] (Node f70366f8), AE_TIME
> > [   27.548393] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
> > [\_SB_.PCI0.BAT0._BST] (Node f7034c48), AE_TIME
> > [   27.548521] ACPI Exception (battery-0385): AE_TIME, Evaluating _BST
> > [20090320]
> 
> Odd.  Did this happen in 2.6.29?

I have seen something similar with different kernels.  See for example
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492699
which reports that for kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10 and
kernel-2.6.29-3.fc10 Fedora kernels and Asus Eeeps 1002HA.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=+Method+parse%2Fexecution+failed

brings a list where it is possible to find something of that sort
in different settings too.

    Michal

Re: Asus Eee 901Go ACPI errors on 2.6.30-rc4-git4

[Alan Jenkins]

On 5/9/09, Michal Jaegermann <michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:46:05PM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>> On 5/8/09, Mario Lang <mlang@tugraz.at> wrote:
>> >
>> > Booting 2.6.30-rc4-git4 on an Asus Eee 901Go I get the following in
>> > dmesg:
>> >
>> > [   27.005071] ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt
>> > mode.
>> > [   27.548097] ACPI Exception (evregion-0422): AE_TIME, Returned by
>> > Handler
>> > for [EmbeddedControl] [20090320]
>> > [   27.548139] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
>> > [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_.BST1] (Node f7033d4c), AE_TIME
>> > [   27.548280] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
>> > [\_SB_.PCI0.CBST] (Node f70366f8), AE_TIME
>> > [   27.548393] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
>> > [\_SB_.PCI0.BAT0._BST] (Node f7034c48), AE_TIME
>> > [   27.548521] ACPI Exception (battery-0385): AE_TIME, Evaluating _BST
>> > [20090320]
>>
>> Odd.  Did this happen in 2.6.29?
>
> I have seen something similar with different kernels.  See for example
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492699
> which reports that for kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10 and
> kernel-2.6.29-3.fc10 Fedora kernels and Asus Eeeps 1002HA.

Interesting.  Not the same model, but both are relatively new.  It
sounds as if they switched to the EC chip that Acer used for the
Aspire One :-).  There's a very similar bug for the Acer netbook:

<http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12949>

There are several patches.  Alexey's patch was confirmed to help on
the Acer netbook.  I suggest you try the latest patch from Alexey,
which is attached at comment 20:

<http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12949#c20>



> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=+Method+parse%2Fexecution+failed
>
> brings a list where it is possible to find something of that sort
> in different settings too.

I think that's a very general failure message, that ACPI failed to
execute some method.  I don't think there are any other EC (Embedded
Controller) failures on that list.

Thanks
Alan

Re: Asus Eee 901Go ACPI errors on 2.6.30-rc4-git4

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 09:13:18AM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> On 5/9/09, Michal Jaegermann <michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=+Method+parse%2Fexecution+failed
> >
> > brings a list where it is possible to find something of that sort
> > in different settings too.
> 
> I think that's a very general failure message, that ACPI failed to
> execute some method.  I don't think there are any other EC (Embedded
> Controller) failures on that list.

Hm, at least https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472650#c5
seems to be quite similar.  It says:

ACPI Error (evregion-0315): No handler for Region [EC__] (f780b848)
[EmbeddedControl] [20080609]
....
and so on.  That is for GX700 laptop from MSI.

I did not go through every of those reports from the referenced list.

    Michal