acpi0: Could not initialise SystemMemory handler: AE_NOT_EXIST

[Daniel Bilik]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:41:45 +1000 (EST)
Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:

> I don't know anything about that, but having looked over our RTC code 
> lately re another issue, I also wonder about the significance of this:
>  > RTC BIOS diagnostic error 96<clock_battery,memory_size,invalid_time>
> ...
> Daniel: have there been any other RTC messages like that along the way?
> Perhaps seeing all of your dmesg might shine some more light?

There are no failures or warnings reported by BIOS during boot, and
settings were changed (and saved) there several times during my tests. Also
there is no such "diagnostic error" in Linux dmesg, so I think Andriy is
right here, ie. this may be a result of failed acpi attach, but not a
source of it.

Complete (well, almost, as I was not quick enough to take a picture of
the screen with CPU identification :)) dmesg follows:

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FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010
    root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
...
  TSC: P-state invariant
real memory  = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
avail memory = 2037829632 (1943 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <HPQOEM 3653    >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUS
FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 1 core(s) x 2 HTT threads
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID:  1
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 1
ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0: <HPQOEM SLIC-MPC> on motherboard
ACPI Error: No handler for Region [PMIO] (0xffffff00024b1d00) [SystemIO] (20100331/evregion-487)
ACPI Error: Region SystemIO(0x1) has no handler (20100331/exfldio-383)
ACPI Error (psparse-0633): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.GSWS] (Node 0xffffff00024c63e0), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI Error (psparse-0633): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.SSMI] (Node 0xffffff00024af400), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI Error (psparse-0633): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.GFX0._REG] (Node 0xffffff00024ac9e0), AE_NOT_EXIST
acpi0: Could not initialise SystemMemory handler: AE_NOT_EXIST
device_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 96<clock_battery,memory_size,invalid_time>
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> 4194304 bytes at 0xffffffff80e6aa98
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0
warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately
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Thank you for looking at this.

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						Daniel Bilik