Kernel 2.6.26.2-3.fc8: new PCI message, is this normal??

Patrick fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Thu Aug 14 10:59:28 UTC 2008


Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> 
>> Just installed 2.6.26.2-3.fc8 from Koji.
>>
>> I get a warning message upon boot up, just after the kernel prompt which lets 
>> me choose which one I want to use. It simply says:
>>
>> PCI: NOT USING MMCONFIG
>>
>> Is this normal? Never saw that message before.
> 
> Whoops, I see other messages in my log files now:
> 
> Aug 13 15:59:31 www kernel: PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base f0000000 
> segment 0 buses 0 - 64
> Aug 13 15:59:31 www kernel: PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not 
> reserved in ACPI motherboard resources
> Aug 13 15:59:31 www kernel: PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
> 
> Aug 13 15:59:31 www kernel: ACPI Error (dsfield-0139): [CAPD] Namespace 
> lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> Aug 13 15:59:31 www kernel: ACPI Error (psparse-0530): Method 
> parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0._OSC] (Node f78195e8), 
> AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> Aug 13 15:59:31 www kernel: ACPI: Marking method _OSC as Serialized 
> because of AE_ALREADY_EXISTS error

Although I have not seen this message on F9 and F10 Alpha I did saw 
similar messages yesterday when I installed CentOS 5.2 i386 on a HP 
DL360 G5. Haven't figured out if this is bad and if so how to fix them. 
Hopefully someone in the know can shed some light on this.

Regards,
Patrick




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