Le Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:47:45 +0100
Rogier Krieger a ecrit :
> after the update (through CVS) of my NetBSD 1.6.1 system according to
> SA2004-04, I now see some strange output at boot time. Near detection
> of the vga0 device, I get the following output:
> 
> vga0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: Intel 82845G/GL Integrated Graphics
> Device(rev. 0x01)
> pci_mem_find: void region
> pci_mem_find: void region
> pci_mem_find: void region
> pci_mem_find: void region
> wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> 
> Do these pci_mem_find message indicate any problem or harmful condition?
> On other systems (with identical configurations), I do not see these
> lines. The kernel in question is a custom-built one, although I get
> similar output when
> running a GENERIC kernel. Before, using a NetBSD 1.6.1 kernel with
> security patches applied up to SA2004-02, I never received these
> messages.
> 
> Digging through the archives, I found PR kern/23446 that seems to deal
> with the same problem. Yet I do not know whether this is something
> serious.

It is harmless.  The vga_pci driver maps all BARs in case XFree86 needs
them afterwards.  Unallocated ones make that message appear.

-- 
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"Feels like I'm fiddling while Rome is burning down.
Should I lay my fiddle down and take a rifle from the ground ?"
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