Hi Alessandro,

On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 8:49:20 PM Alessandro Brezzi wrote:
> Hi Lester,
> 
> 2012/6/19 Lester M. Petrie Jr. <petriel...@ornl.gov>:
> > Thanks. It does look like a fix will come pretty soon. But does anyone
> > know
> > what APEI and GAR stand for?
> 
> from Linux/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c
> 
>   1 /*
>   2  * apei-base.c - ACPI Platform Error Interface (APEI) supporting
>   3  * infrastructure
>   4  *
>   5  * APEI allows to report errors (for example from the chipset) to the
>   6  * the operating system. This improves NMI handling especially. In
>   7  * addition it supports error serialization and error injection.
>   8  *
>   9  * For more information about APEI, please refer to ACPI Specification
>  10  * version 4.0, chapter 17.
>  11  *
>  12  * This file has Common functions used by more than one APEI table,
>  13  * including framework of interpreter for ERST and EINJ; resource
>  14  * management for APEI registers.
>  15  *
>  16  * Copyright (C) 2009, Intel Corp.
>  17  *      Author: Huang Ying <ying.hu...@intel.com>
> 
> HTH

Thanks.  That is enough information to satisfy my curiosity.  Now I'll just 
wait for an update to make the flood cease.

-- 
Lester M Petrie
865-574-5259
petriel...@ornl.gov

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