acpi_perf0: invalid _PSS package?

Jeff D. Hamann jeff.hamann at forestinformatics.com
Sun Dec 18 19:08:50 PST 2005 

I've been noticing this message on startup (using dmesg)

acpi_perf0: invalid _PSS package

and can't figure out what it is, what it's for and why there are so many?

FreeBSD bobby.somewhere.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #2: Sun Nov 27 
14:07:55 PST 2005 
hamannj at bobby.somewhere.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

and


bobby# dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #2: Sun Nov 27 14:07:55 PST 2005
    hamannj at bobby.forestinformatics.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
ACPI APIC Table: <A M I  OEMAPIC >
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (1995.01-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0xf4a  Stepping = 10
  Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
  AMD Features=0xe0500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
real memory  = 1576271872 (1503 MB)
avail memory = 1511051264 (1441 MB)
ioapic0 <Version 1.4> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
acpi0: <A M I OEMRSDT> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
pci_link0: <ACPI PCI Link LNKA> irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link1: <ACPI PCI Link LNKB> irq 11 on acpi0
pci_link2: <ACPI PCI Link LNKC> irq 10 on acpi0
pci_link3: <ACPI PCI Link LNKD> irq 10 on acpi0
pci_link4: <ACPI PCI Link LNKE> irq 5 on acpi0
pci_link5: <ACPI PCI Link LNKF> irq 10 on acpi0
pci_link6: <ACPI PCI Link LNKG> irq 5 on acpi0
pci_link7: <ACPI PCI Link LNKH> irq 5 on acpi0
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
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pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 2.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <SiS 965 UDMA133 controller> port 
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 2.5 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 2.7 (no driver attached)
ohci0: <SiS 5571 USB controller> mem 0xfbefc000-0xfbefcfff irq 20 at device 
3.0 on pci0
ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: <SiS 5571 USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci1: <SiS 5571 USB controller> mem 0xfbefd000-0xfbefdfff irq 21 at device 
3.1 on pci0
ohci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb1: <SiS 5571 USB controller> on ohci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci2: <SiS 5571 USB controller> mem 0xfbefe000-0xfbefefff irq 22 at device 
3.2 on pci0
ohci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb2: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb2: <SiS 5571 USB controller> on ohci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfbeff000-0xfbefffff irq 23 
at device 3.3 on pci0
ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb3: EHCI version 1.0
usb3: companion controllers, 3 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2
usb3: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
usb3: USB revision 2.0
uhub3: SiS EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
pci0: <network, ethernet> at device 4.0 (no driver attached)
atapci1: <SiS 182 SATA150 controller> port 
0xa800-0xa807,0xa400-0xa403,0xa000-0xa007,0x9800-0x9803,0x9400-0x940f,0x9000-0x907f 
irq 17 at device 5.0 on pci0
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 6.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
rl0: <D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100BaseTX> port 0x8800-0x88ff mem 
0xfbefb800-0xfbefb8ff irq 17 at device 10.0 on pci0
miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:11:95:24:60:b3
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on 
acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A
fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on 
acpi0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 3 
on acpi0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1995009076 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ad0: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JB-00GVA0 08.02D08> at ata0-master UDMA100
acd0: DVDR <SONY DVD RW DW-Q28A/KYS2> at ata1-master UDMA66
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
bobby#

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