On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:46:43PM +0000, Moore, Robert wrote: > > My only guess is that Windows is more permissive about this sort of > > thing than ACPICA is, but by my reading of the spec throwing a fatal > > error is what's supposed to happen. > > If it is true that Windows will execute this code without error, then ACPICA should be changed to match the Windows behavior. ACPICA is now a "Windows compatible" implementation of ACPI, but that of course means we are attempting to be compatible with a black box ACPI implementation. On the other hand, it may be the case that Windows never executes this code, so the error is not seen on Windows. > > We would like to investigate this further. Please send or point me to the acpidump for this machine. I posted the ACPI tables at the following link. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/toshiba-acpi/nb505-acpi-tables.txt Thanks, Seth -- 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
