Bit 0 of the support parameter to the OSC call should be set in order to indicate that the OS supports the WHEA mechanism. Stuart Hayes tracked an APEI issue on some Dell platforms down to this. Reported-by: Stuart Hayes <Stuart_Hayes@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c index 8041248..6154036 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ int apei_osc_setup(void) }; capbuf[OSC_QUERY_TYPE] = OSC_QUERY_ENABLE; - capbuf[OSC_SUPPORT_TYPE] = 0; + capbuf[OSC_SUPPORT_TYPE] = 1; capbuf[OSC_CONTROL_TYPE] = 0; if (ACPI_FAILURE(acpi_get_handle(NULL, "\\_SB", &handle)) -- 1.7.6 -- 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
