RE: ACPI Warning: Converted Buffer to expected String

Probably should be dropped down to a warning.

This is usually caused by the BIOS modifying the package length on the fly. No ASL compiler would do this.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-acpi_at_freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>acpi_at_freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jung-uk Kim
>Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:16 PM
>To: freebsd-current_at_FreeBSD.org
>Cc: Lawrence Stewart; freebsd-acpi_at_freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: ACPI Warning: Converted Buffer to expected String
>
>On Tuesday 13 October 2009 05:50 pm, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
>> Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> > by new ACPICA.  However, if you see "ACPI Error", that's
>> > something to worry about, e.g., cannot convert predefined types.
>>
>> So I should be worried about this line from my Toshiba R600
>> laptop's dmesg?
>>
>> ACPI Error: Package List length (0xC) larger than NumElements count
>> (0x4), truncated
>
>Strictly speaking, it is an error because ACPI specification says so
>(hence the error message).  However, no exception is returned because
>of Windows compatibility according to the comments in the source.
>
>If everything is working fine, just ignore it. :-)
>
>Jung-uk Kim
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