What is APEI and what is GAR?

[Lester M. Petrie Jr.]

Hi

I installed Fedora 17 last week, and my messages log and kernel log has been 
filled with the following message:

[Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xcfeb6110/32/0/1/0]

It is repeated every few seconds (seems to be more often when the cpus are 
loaded).  I can't see that anything isn't working.  If I reboot into Fedora 
15, the messages aren't there.  Does anyone know what is complaining, and if 
there is some way to turn the messages off?  TIA.

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Lester M Petrie
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petrielmjr at ornl.gov