On Thu 2009-12-10 15:16:57, Huang Ying wrote: > APEI stands for ACPI Platform Error Interface, which allows to report > errors (for example from the chipset) to the operating system. This > improves NMI handling especially. In addition it supports error > serialization and error injection. > > For more information about APEI, please refer to ACPI Specification > version 4.0, chapter 17. > > This patch provides some common functions used by more than one APEI > tables, mainly framework of interpreter for EINJ and ERST. > > A machine readable language is defined for EINJ and ERST for OS to > execute, and so to drive the firmware to fulfill the corresponding > functions. The machine language for EINJ and ERST is compatible, so a > common framework is defined for them. Does this mean we'll now try to run acpi interrpretter from NMI context? I don't see how that can work; NMI is really special... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
