Re: Weird syslog stuff on UDB

[philb gnu org]

>   Nov  2 19:55:30 molybdenum kernel: Probing PCI hardware.
>   Nov  2 19:55:30 molybdenum kernel: bios32.sio_fixup: weird, device 8086:048
>4 coming in on slot 7 has no irq line!!
>
>Is this something I should care about?

No; all UDBs do this as far as I know and it seems harmless.

>Now this is indeed strange.  When I boot the kernel as installed by RH,
>I thought I got 164.53 BogoMIPS.  Moreover, when MILO is doing its
>bootstrap thing before it unzips the kernel on my hard disk and begins
>executing it, it reports 164.53 BogoMIPS also.  Why only 162.53 on my 
>self-compiled version (to get sound support)?

Differences in code placement relative to cache lines perhaps.  I wouldn't 
worry about that too much either.

>This is also new since I built and booted my own kernel.  The stock RedHat 
>one did not do this.  Now I know that "unaligned traps" will occur every
>once in a while, and that somewhere it said this is no problem, but why
>this trap on the partition check when the RedHat-supplied kernel does not
>do this?

I imagine it was always trapping but the RedHat kernel doesn't log the 
messages by default.

p.