linux-kernel - Re: PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved with 2.6.18 kernel

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Message-Id: <1159808447.4652.6.camel@mhcln03>
Date:	Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:00:47 +0200
From:	Matthias Hentges <oe@...tges.net>
To:	Wink Saville <wink@...ille.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved with
	2.6.18 kernel

Hello Wink,

Am Sonntag, den 01.10.2006, 18:12 -0700 schrieb Wink Saville:
> I'm trying to build the 2.6.18 kernel for a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHZ in a 
> Asus P5W DH Deluxe Motherboard which has a 975 chip set. It does work 
> when booting from a 2.6.15-27 kernel installed from Ubuntu 2.06 LTS.
> 
> When failing I get three messages on the screen:
> 
> PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved
> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG
> Intel-rng: FWH not detected
> 
> The first two appear to be from lines 215 & 217 of mmconfig.c (x86_64)
> and the other is from line 313 of intel-rng.c.
> 
> Attached is my config file, I've tried both Generic-X86-64 and Intel 
> EM64T for the Processor family.
> 

I'm using the exact same motherboard and CPU and saw some hangs w/
enabled nvidia FB driver.
I'm using 2.6.18-mm1 currently w/o any major problems.

FWIW, I'm seeing identical error messages / warning , but they appear to
be harmless.

My .config for 2.6.18-mm1 is attached

HTH
-- 
Matthias 'CoreDump' Hentges 

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