[Bug 1102370] Re: [FWTS] found many AMLAssemblerError

2013-01-22 Thread Colin King
So, looking at the AML errors, I see: line 2758: Name (_FDE, Package (0x05) // _FDE: Floppy Disk Enumerate _FDE not used in the kernel, so this error can be ignored. line 2897: This is a bug in the firmware, but I believe it won't do any harm. line 4413: Method OCOP: Method does not return a pac

[Bug 1102370] Re: [FWTS] found many AMLAssemblerError

2013-01-22 Thread Colin King
Conclusion: Nothing we can fix and there is little to worry about. I will mark it as "Won't Fix" if that's OK. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

[Bug 1102370] Re: [FWTS] found many AMLAssemblerError

2013-01-22 Thread dino99
Thanks Colin, that mobo is quite old, and there is no more firmware upgrade since a while. The most trouble with that mobo is the boot process: need 2 cold boot before the 3rd succeed (but that issue, existing since karmic, cant be due to something else indeed, and had never been marrowed down)

[Bug 1102370] Re: [FWTS] found many AMLAssemblerError

2013-01-22 Thread Colin King
I've added some more intelligence to fwts to give some better feedback for some of the errors you see in the bug report. These will land in fwts V0.26.05 or V0.26.06 depending on when the patches get pulled into the release. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1102370] Re: [FWTS] found many AMLAssemblerError

2013-01-22 Thread Colin King
Most of the AML errors are due to sloppy coding by the firmware vendor, for example, there are several mutex Acquires with timeouts that never check if the timeout occurred and just carry on as if the mutex was Acquired correctly. Also there are some methods that return values on some paths of exe

[Bug 1102370] Re: [FWTS] found many AMLAssemblerError

2013-01-22 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,