netdev - Re: Bug/Warning report for the week of January 3rd, 2009

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Message-ID:  <495FF769.3040205@shaw.ca>
Date:	Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:40:25 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: Bug/Warning report for the week of January 3rd, 2009

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Rank 2: mtrr_trim_uncached_memory (warning)
> 	Reported 420 times (9816 total reports)
> 	BIOS bug (often in VMWare) where the MTRR's are set up incorrectly or not at all
> 	This warning was last seen in version 2.6.28, and first seen in 2.6.24.
> 	More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=mtrr_trim_uncached_memory

It would be useful if this warning dumped out some DMI BIOS information 
or something, so we could see what systems/boards this was commonly 
happening with..

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