Re: "Error parsing PCC subspaces from PCCT" due to invalid PCCT?

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On Friday, January 12, 2018 3:50:10 PM CET Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Just looking for some advice on this problem.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1435837 are many reports against
> Dell, HP, Lenovo hardware that get a
> 
> Error parsing PCC subspaces from PCCT
> 
> during boot.
> 
> AFAICT this occurs because a PCCT header is defined without any actual PCC
> subspaces.  e.g) from one of the systems:
> 
> [000h 0000   4]                    Signature : "PCCT"    [Platform
> Communications Channel Table]
> [004h 0004   4]                 Table Length : 00000030
> [008h 0008   1]                     Revision : 01
> [009h 0009   1]                     Checksum : 89
> [00Ah 0010   6]                       Oem ID : "HP    "
> [010h 0016   8]                 Oem Table ID : "ProLiant"
> [018h 0024   4]                 Oem Revision : 00000001
> [01Ch 0028   4]              Asl Compiler ID : "HP  "
> [020h 0032   4]        Asl Compiler Revision : 00000001
> 
> [024h 0036   4]        Flags (decoded below) : 00000001
>                                     Doorbell : 1
> [028h 0040   8]                     Reserved : 0000000000000000
> 
> Raw Table Data: Length 48 (0x30)
> 
>   0000: 50 43 43 54 30 00 00 00 01 89 48 50 20 20 20 20  // PCCT0.....HP
>   0010: 50 72 6F 4C 69 61 6E 74 01 00 00 00 48 50 20 20  // ProLiant....HP
>   0020: 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  // ................
> 
> 
> I don't see anything in the ACPI 6.2 Spec 5.2.28 that implies a PCC subspace
> MUST be defined so I guess technically the above is okay to do.
> 
> OR :)  Is this really a bug in these Intel systems' BIOSes?

On x86 Linux does not use PCC at all, so this is all irrelevant.

Thanks,
Rafael

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