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

[Gilbert Sebenste]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Patrick wrote:

>>> 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
>
>> 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

Thanks, Patrick. I put that message into Koji, but I'll let it slide since 
you and I don't appear to be having any trouble with it. Looks like 
2.6.26.3 could be on it's way; we'll see if one of the updates in this 
series fixes this.

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
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