Comment 24 for bug 475704

@Ton van Vliet:

See #20 for a "by hand" patch for the actual problem - thanks to Frank Larimer for identifying it there.

This or an equivalent made it into 10.10's kernel as described in my #22, so 10.10 is the lazy option if you want to upgrade. [Do I read it right: The MS compiler generates code with malformed addresses that are supposed to be 32-bit by the spec, while MS Windows cheerfully ignores upper 16 bits? Or is this something the author of the DSDT has to directly screw up, and Windows' behavior just lets them get away with it?]

re: 10.10 on these systems, the unrelated noise from the other bug mentioned in my #22 is actually more intermittent/not nearly so much of an issue or annoyance as I first thought, if it's not already fixed anyway [haven't checked since 10.10 went final, it may have been fixed by now].

Importing or enabling the "N,000 messages: Ignoring" feature as found in certain BSDs might not be a bad idea, still...