Bug 7683

Summary:	PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at e0000000 is not E820-reserved in Compaq Presario serie V2000
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena)
Component:	PCI	Assignee:	Greg Kroah-Hartman (greg)
Status:	REJECTED UNREPRODUCIBLE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bunk
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.20	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	$cat dmesg $sudo dmidecode $reportbug linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic $dmesg in 2.6.20-5-lowlatency $dmesg in kernel 2.6.24-2-generic of Ubuntu Hardy Heron

Description Cristian Aravena Romero 2006-12-14 14:52:05 UTC

Most recent kernel where this bug did *NOT* occur:
Distribution: Ubuntu Edgy
Hardware Environment:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/CompaqPresarioV2417LA/Hardware
Software Environment: default
Problem Description:
Revise dmesg and BIOS Bug.

Solution:
Report of Kernel to Company Bug in BIOS, and fix company Compaq problem

Comment 1 Cristian Aravena Romero 2006-12-14 14:53:02 UTC

Created attachment 9825 [details]
$cat dmesg

Comment 2 Cristian Aravena Romero 2006-12-14 14:53:55 UTC

Created attachment 9826 [details]
$sudo dmidecode

Comment 3 Cristian Aravena Romero 2006-12-14 14:58:07 UTC

Created attachment 9827 [details]
$reportbug linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic

Comment 4 Cristian Aravena Romero 2007-01-07 10:07:24 UTC

Created attachment 10019 [details]
$dmesg in 2.6.20-5-lowlatency

Comment 5 Cristian Aravena Romero 2007-01-21 11:07:12 UTC

Problem in cpu 64bits of Intel and AMD.

References:
http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=27836&sid=af434c3ef1852326ee44d904346fed1e
http://www.unixboard.de/vb3/showthread.php?t=23535
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/2/108
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/275
http://www.trustix.org/forum/showthread.php?t=748
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241913
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.x86-64.general/1794

Comment 6 Cristian Aravena Romero 2007-02-13 13:19:48 UTC

I test proyect: http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org/

Report of my BIOS:
http://www.bughost.org/pipermail/firmwarekit-results/2007-February/000094.html

(Revise file results-0001.xml)

Comment 7 Chuck Ebbert 2007-03-26 15:38:34 UTC

Your PC's BIOS is buggy. This is not a Linux bug.

Comment 8 Cristian Aravena Romero 2008-01-05 16:29:38 UTC

Created attachment 14307 [details]
$dmesg in kernel 2.6.24-2-generic of Ubuntu Hardy Heron

Not message in new kernel. Close report?

Comment 9 Natalie Protasevich 2008-04-13 17:56:45 UTC

Thanks, closing the bug.