Subject: Re: ACPI panic. (in acpibat)
To: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
From: None <wulf@ping.net.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/09/2003 10:49:55
> 
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:40:35PM -0800, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> > My Dell Latitude CPx panics if I have the acpibat driver enabled.
> > Below is the boot messages / traceback from my serial console.
> 
> Known issue, affects my Dell Latitude C600 and some others as well.
> 
> One of the interesting things this has highlighted is that the code
> which emits the "buffer of zero length" warning still returns an
> OK status, allowing the rest of the code to proceed to the crash.
> 
> I think it shouldn't.
> 
> Does anyone see this warning message on a system that otherwise
> functions properly - ie, where the OK status might be reasonable?


FYI: A bug report was submitted, reference number kern/19723,  containing 
a kernel traceback relevant to the above problem.

cheerio Berndt