What is APEI and what is GAR?

[Alessandro Brezzi]

Hi Lester,

2012/6/19 Lester M. Petrie Jr. <petrielmjr at 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.huang at intel.com>

HTH
-- 
Alessandro Brezzi