Re: ASUS K8N-DL Beta BIOS

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Sean Bruno wrote:
> Also, the ACPI PCI Interrupt Routing Table (PRT) contains references to
> entries that don't exist elsewhere in the ACPI tables:
> 
> ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050309
>     ACPI-0352: *** Error: Looking up [\_SB_.PCI0.LNK0] in namespace,
> AE_NOT_FOUND
> search_node ffff81013ffca240 start_node ffff81013ffca240 return_node
> 0000000000000000
>     ACPI-0352: *** Error: Looking up [\_SB_.PCI0.APC0] in namespace,
> AE_NOT_FOUND
> search_node ffff81013ffca140 start_node ffff81013ffca140 return_node
> 0000000000000000
> 
> Linux unfortunately appears to give up on parsing the PRT when this
> happens, unlike Windows, which will parse the table despite these
> errors. Without parsing the PRT, Linux cannot know how to route
> interrupts for various PCI devices, which results in the later errors:

Is there a reason Linux couldn't behave similarly to Windows in this 
situation? That might provide some better compatibility with such buggy 
BIOSes..

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