Bug 1248

Summary: need CONFIG_ACPI_RELAXED_AML
Product: ACPI Reporter: Len Brown (lenb)
Component: ACPICA-CoreAssignee: Len Brown (lenb)
Status: REJECTED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: acpi-bugzilla
Priority: P2    
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.0 Subsystem:
Regression: --- Bisected commit-id:

Description Len Brown 2003-09-18 19:38:39 UTC 
2.4.22 has CONFIG_ACPI_RELAXED_AML to tell ACPI to ignore a common AML bug. 
(ie. be bug compatible with Microsoft's AML interpreter). 
 
This option is absent, but needed, in 2.6: 
 
boot a T40: 
 
Executing all Device _STA and_INI methods:...................................... 
................ exfldio-0129 [22] ex_setup_region       : Field [PWKI] access w 
idth (4 bytes) too large for region [U7CS] (length 2) 
 exfldio-0140 [22] ex_setup_region       : Field [PWKI] Base+Offset+Width 0+0+4 
is beyond end of region [U7CS] (length 2) 
 exfldio-0129 [22] ex_setup_region       : Field [PWKI] access width (4 bytes) t 
oo large for region [U7CS] (length 2) 
 exfldio-0140 [22] ex_setup_region       : Field [PWKI] Base+Offset+Width 0+0+4 
is beyond end of region [U7CS] (length 2) 
 psparse-1121: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.USB7._INI] (Node d 
fd99aa8), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT 
  nsinit-0397 [06] ns_init_one_device    : \_SB_.PCI0.USB7._INI failed: AE_AML_R 
EGION_LIMIT 
....
Comment 1 Len Brown 2003-12-02 20:25:22 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1129 ***