Re: ACPI0007 ? Anyone know what it is?

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Sat, 5 Nov 2022 11:53:33 +0000 (UTC)
    From:        RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <cc7ccb-69d9-d1f4-ac8b-d0807c384c5e%SDF.ORG@localhost>

  | HID ACPI0007 looks like a processor object: ACPI v6.5 Section 8.4:
  | https://uefi.org/specifications

Thanks.

A processor device description if I understand what I read at that URL,
though the ACPI spec may as well be written in Klingon for all the
sense I can make of it.

Using the pkgsrc acpidump (not the NetBSD version) I can see references
to PR00 .. PR63 each with the string ACPI0007 coming after, but what any
of that is supposed to mean, I have no idea.   I certainly do not have
64 processors, those are probably just (I would guess) placeholders in
some table for people who have AMD threadrippers which can have that
many CPUs.

Very strange.

I did try the NetBSD acpidump, with -d, to try to get better info, but
all I get from that is "iast exit status = -256" (where the "iast" is
clearly a typo in the source - which looks like about kindergarten
quality code - for "iasl").   -256 would indicate that something in iasl
is doing exit(255) or exit(-1) or similar I think.

kre