AER reporting on NVME board

[Keith Busch]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:16:29AM -0800, Yogi Wannabe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 16.10 desktop with Kernel 4.8.0-22-generic. I'm
> trying to enable PCI AER reporting.
> 
> /boot/config-`uname -r` shows
> 
> CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_PCIEAER=y
> CONFIG_PCIAER=y
> CONFIG_PCIEPORTBUS=y
> 
> so clearly AER reporting has been enabled. Yet in dmesg I see this:
> 
> acpi PNP0A08: _OSC: platform does not support [AER]
> 
> I have tried this on several systems with different SuperMicro
> motherboards and I see the same message. I don't see any BIOS settings
> for AER configuration.
> 
> I know this is not a NVME driver issue, but I have not been able to
> resolve this even after posting to other forums so I'm hoping some
> here can point me in the right direction.

AER support is provided by PCIe root ports, and the message is telling
you your platform doesn't have your desired capabilities.