Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: Distribution: Hardware Environment: Software Environment: Problem Description: The Linux kernel ACPI interpreter fails the following AML test when it is compiled into a simulator. So if an OEM BIOS includes this code, Linux would fail. Steps to reproduce: Run interpreter with the .asl demo code attached below.
Created attachment 6225 [details] ASL code to reproduce bug. Methods m005 and m006 of the attached demo program cause unexpected exceptions when try to apply the Store-to-Debug operation to the retrieved elements of Package which are Device in case of m005 and ThermalZone in case of m006. INTERNAL BUG NUMBER 120
Fixed by patch to bug 5369.
Released in 20060608
ACPICA 20060608 shipped in Linux 2.6.17-git9, closed.