Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:34:23 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: [ACPI] Invalid PBLK length for athlon XP-M on Asus laptop
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 02:58:12PM +0200, Daniele Venzano wrote:
> Since this is a laptop it seemed a bit strange to me 8), so I checked
> dmesg with acpi debugging turned on (full dmesg is attached), and I
> found these:
> 
> [.....]
> ACPI: Fan [FAN0] (on)
> acpi_processor-1626 [30] acpi_processor_get_inf: Invalid PBLK length [5]

This is a bug in your ACPI bios, you need a vendor update.  We tried
fixing this but it broke a number of laptops, so we had to revert it.

> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> acpi_processor_perf-0104 [28] acpi_processor_get_per: Unsupported address space [127] (control_register)
> cpufreq: No CPUs supporting ACPI performance management found.

That means that you need a non-acpi driver for perf throttling.  Did you
try enabling some of the other cpufreq drivers?

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