Re: Invalid PBLK length for athlon XP-M on Asus laptop

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On Aug 23 2003, 7:42 pm, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 02:58:12PM +0200, Daniele Venzano wrote:
> > I checked
> > dmesg with acpi debugging turned on (full dmesg is attached), and I
> > found these:
> >
> > [...]
> > ACPI: Fan [FAN0] (on)
> > acpi_processor-1626 [30] acpi_processor_get_inf: Invalid PBLK length [5]
>
> This is a bug in your ACPI bios, you need a vendor update.  We tried
> fixing this but it broke a number of laptops, so we had to revert it.

And years later... I just got this "Invalid PBLK length [5]" error
message as well, first time ever, when first booting 2.6.18. I never
got it with 2.6.17 or any earlier kernel. My BIOS or any settings
didn't change.

Now this is a desktop so ACPI is not very important to me but is this
possibly a regression?

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