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ACPI Bios Warning bug :Length Mismatch PM1 Control Block

Once in a while we stumbled into one unknown warning message on our laptop or desktop machine and wish to know how it affects our machine (in terms of security or performance or powersave. Today i going to dig into one bug which seems to happen to some of us running GNU/Linux operating system on legacy Bios machine : ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): 32/64X length mismatch in FADT/Pm1aControlBlock: 16/32 Going to the documentation section for ACPI Component Architecture commissioned by Intel Corporation, we can see a list of documents (pdf and doc format). Intuitively, i select the pdf file under ACPICA user guide and programmer reference and search for the word 'acpi bios'. This leads me to the page titled ' AcpiBiosWarning and ACPI_BIOS_WARNING '. There is a subtiltle stating "Print a formatted warning string for BIOS/firmware issues." It is a short page with the following functional description : This function prints a formatted error message using the A