RE: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1

["Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>]

>> 2. Onto some more minor warnings:
>> 
>> ACPI: bus type pci registered
>> PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved
>> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
>> PCI: Using configuration type 1
>> ACPI: Interpreter enabled
>> 
>> Is there any way to verify that there really is a BIOS bug 
>there?  If it is, is there anyone within Intel or are there any
>known contacts 
>who can push and poke > to get this looked at/fixed?
>(It's a new Intel board, I'd hope they could get it right..).

Arjan should probably comment on that one.

>> 3. Power Management warnings, been there ages, but I've had 
>bigger things to 
>> worry about (like fatal oopses) so haven't bothered asking:
>> 
>> Device `[PEX0]' is not power manageable
>> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
>> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
>> Device `[PEX2]' is not power manageable

I'll revert this message to CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y like it used to be.

>I guess that's from here:
>
>/sys/firmware/acpi/namespace/ACPI/_SB/PCI0/IDES
>
>which contains 2 directories:  PRID and SECD.
>Apparently ATA/IDE primary and secondary controllers,
>but I'm not sure.  Those empty directory structures
>don't tell me much.

/sys/firmware/acpi/namespace should not exist at all
and is waiting to die.  You can ignore it.

cheers,
-Len
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