Latest acpi on my FIVA

[Nate Lawson]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >From the latest sources on my FIVA MPC-205:
>
> ACPI-0440: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
> ACPI-1303: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.EC0_.SMRD] (Node 0xc44d5440), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
> ACPI-1303: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.BAT1.UPBI] (Node 0xc44d8540), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
> ACPI-1303: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.BAT1._BIF] (Node 0xc44d8580), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
>
> Repeated 4 or 5 times on boot.

For some reason, reads from the EC time out on some systems.  There's no
discernable common cause but some possible causes include heavy load
(Giant being held too long?  ithread taking too long to run?), boot time
setup of the EC GPE, or buggy EC that fails at various times.

Try updating your BIOS and or EC flash.  The new acpi import I'm working
on may help (modifies GPE initialization).  If it doesn't happen at
runtime, don't worry about it.

-Nate