Bug 725435

Summary:	APEI: disable EINJ parameter support by default
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Don Zickus <dzickus>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Don Zickus <dzickus>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Evan McNabb <emcnabb>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.2	CC:	hui.xiao, jane.lv, jvillalo, jwilleford, luyu
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Fixed In Version:	kernel-2.6.32-180.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	670197

Description Don Zickus 2011-07-25 13:40:44 UTC

Description of problem:

Parameter support for EINJ is not in the ACPI4 spec, but some vendors include it anyway for the BIOS.  However, this breaks some spec compliant boxes.

Disable parameter support unless explicit enabled on the commandline.

Posted upstream recently.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/20/35

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Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-07-25 14:00:20 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.

Comment 4 Don Zickus 2011-07-25 15:18:54 UTC

*** Bug 722932 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Aristeu Rozanski 2011-08-06 16:10:15 UTC

Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-180.el6

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 13:54:09 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1530.html