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From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
Subject: Re: ACPI error messages on Lenovo W540
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:16:04 -0400
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On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 8:51:17 pm Eric McCorkle wrote:
> On 06/24/2014 10:00, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Ah, the nvidia driver calls _DSM and it has the bug.  In its nvidia_acpi.c file
> > it uses a Buffer instead of a Package for the fourth argument to _DSM.  OTOH, the
> > warning doesn't prevent the method from running, so the warning may be harmless.
> > You can try contacting the nvidia folks to tell them about the warning and point
> > out the bug in their _DSM wrapper in nvidia_acpi.c to see what they say.
> 
> Will do.  Is there a preferred point of contact?

Just use the bug report details that come with the driver.  They include an
e-mail address you can use to send bug reports.

-- 
John Baldwin