linux-kernel - What to do with `BERT: Error records from previous boot`?

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Date:   Tue, 24 Nov 2020 17:24:04 +0100
From:   Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
To:     ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: What to do with `BERT: Error records from previous boot`?

Dear Linux folks,

On the Intel Tiger Lake Dell XPS 13 9310 Linux 5.9.9 from Debian 
sid/unstable logged the messages below. Please find the whole log in the 
Linux bug tracker [1].

```
kernel: BERT: Error records from previous boot:
kernel: [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal
kernel: [Hardware Error]:  Error 0, type: fatal
kernel: [Hardware Error]:   section_type: Firmware Error Record Reference
kernel: [Hardware Error]:   Firmware Error Record Type: SOC Firmware 
Error Record Type2
kernel: [Hardware Error]:   Revision: 2
kernel: [Hardware Error]:   Record Identifier: 
8f87f311-c998-4d9e-a0c4-6065518c4f6d
kernel: [Hardware Error]:   00000000: 0100a306 00000280 ca5824d3 
000003ab  .........$X.....
[…]
```

How can I decode that error to understand what happened?

Kind regards,

Paul

[1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210347