On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Tony, does the system work as it did before? Is the only problem that >> now we have more warnings than we did before? > > Yup - things seem to be working. Just have a bunch of new console messages. > > It seems that at least some of them are valid - the BIOS isn't describing some > things that it should. I don't think we need to re-apply code that > used to paper > over this problem. I can just add these to the list of "harmless" messages to > ignore when running new kernels on this old machine. > > Or did I misunderstand some part of this thread? Nope, I think the complaints about BARs 0 and 8 on bus 80 are legitimate errors, and adding them to the list of "harmless" messages is the right thing to do. The ones complaining about BAR 6 (an option ROM) are the ones I'm more concerned about. There's no address space assigned to them, but I don't think that indicates a firmware defect, and the message is sort of cryptic, so I don't want to emit it more often than we have to. But if ia64 is handling these ROMs the same way as x86, this is just an opportunity for future improvement, and we don't need to do anything right now. Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
