SALEM@statoil.com said:
> So...either the SB card had jumpers that don't work (I doubt it) or
> the kernel is reporting bad.

I don't know the hardware well, but it seems that the driver has no way
to read out the irq setting from the card, so the kernel configuration
must match reality.

> Booting OpenBSD (2.5 install floppy disk) or FreeBSD showed no
> conflict, neither did the linux kernel 2.0.3* 

The comparition is not entirely fair - the NetBSD install kernel
booted as well after all. The other kernels probably didn't
support sb _and_ mms.

> Does this qualifies for a PR?

As far as the panic is concerned - no. This is a known issue; and
with ISA hardware it is generally not possible to guess the
actual card settings.
The install notes are incomplete wrt hardware settings - agreed.

best regards
Matthias