From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 19:45:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9045D106566B for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:45:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9218FC15 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:45:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.starpoint.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id WAA03024; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:45:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.starpoint.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1Qc0h5-0009IE-Bi; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:45:03 +0300 Message-ID: <4E0B80BE.6080605@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:45:02 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110626 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ed VanderPloeg References: <4E0A50AA.5000003@agile.bc.ca> <4E0AF27B.3030600@FreeBSD.org> <4E0B6873.6010901@agile.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <4E0B6873.6010901@agile.bc.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Atom N270 - ACPI Error: [RTMP] Namespace lookup failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:45:07 -0000 on 29/06/2011 21:01 Ed VanderPloeg said the following: > On 2011-06-29 2:38 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 29/06/2011 01:07 Ed VanderPloeg said the following: >>> I'm using an Aaeon AEC-6831 embedded system based on an Intel Atom N270, which >>> uses their GENE-9455 motherboard. After updating the BIOS to enable ACPI, I'm >>> now getting the following (verbose) console message during boot and every 10 >>> seconds thereafter: >>> >>> ACPI Error: [RTMP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20101013/psargs-464) >>> ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ_.THRM._TMP] (Node 0xc56b0760), >>> AE_NOT_FOUND (20101013/psparse-633) >>> acpi_tz0: error fetching current temperature -- AE_NOT_FOUND >> >> The problem is that RTMP is defined as an external object: >> External (RTMP, IntObj) >> so it's supposed to come from an additional table, but apparently either no >> additional table defines it or a necessary additional table is not loaded. >> This could be either a BIOS problem or... something else :) > > Aaeon tech support has now stated that the errors are from a faulty BIOS, and > that AWARD will eventually release an update to fix this. OK. >>> The unit seems to run very warm which makes me wonder if this problem is >>> preventing lower power states, if such things are related. >>> >>> I've collected the outputs from a verbose dmesg, from sysctl hw.acpi, and from >>> acpidump. They are zipped up over here: >>> >>> http://www.agilecontrols.com/post/aec6831_acpi.zip >> >> Try either recent stable/8 or head (aka CURRENT) and see if it helps. They >> contain a change that may be a work-around for a BIOS (ACPI tables) like yours. > > I'll give stable/8 a try. > > Does this error indicate something potentially harmful, or if it is benign? I > can silence the messages easy enough until a BIOS update comes out. Actually I was speaking about potentially making est driver attach on your system. I also suspected that RTMP might have gotten loaded from the same dynamic table that is related to est attachment issue, but apparently that was not going to happen. -- Andriy Gapon