CC Lin Ming, the ACPICA expert. On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 06:15 +0800, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > Hi, > > I just got a new motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R) and I'm seeing > the following in the kernel log (2.6.31-gentoo-r6, which I believe is > basically 2.6.31.6) > > ... > [ 0.000000] ACPI: TAMG 00000000cfee7330 00AE2 (v01 GBT GBT B0 > 5455312E BG^A^A 53450101) non-printable chars in Creator ID field. > ... > [ 0.713697] ACPI Warning: Incorrect checksum in table [TAMG] - 9D, > should be 9C 20090521 tbutils-246 > > acpidump shows: > > TAMG @ 0xcfee7330 > 0000: 54 41 4d 47 e2 0a 00 00 01 9d 47 42 54 20 20 20 TAMG......GBT > 0010: 47 42 54 20 20 20 42 30 2e 31 55 54 42 47 01 01 GBT B0.1UTBG.. > 0020: 01 01 45 53 44 54 3d 20 ef 00 08 00 0f 00 2c 01 ..ESDT= ......,. > > So those ^A's are really in there, but it's a little annoying (and it > causes less to go into binary viewing mode when it shows up in > /var/log/messages). Would it be reasonable to add some kind of > escaping code for such situations so that it might print like > "BG\x01\x01"? > Ming, any comments on this? thanks, rui -- 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
