Re: FW: ACPI Warning: Invalid length for Pm1aControlBlock: 32,using default 16 (20090903/tbfadt-607)

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 06:33:13PM +0000, Berahalli, Sreenivasa Reddy wrote:

> This warning message means the length of register in the ACPI tables and the default values are different.
> We see it as  over-aggressive check in Linux, with no issue.

Linux sees it as a deviation between the BIOS and the spec, which may 
cause issues if it turns out that we treat this behaviour differently to 
tested operating systems. Why not fix your BIOS?

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