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Offline saltcedar

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dmesg should I be concerned?
« on: January 04, 2011, 06:35:02 AM »
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WARNING: at drivers/pci/dmar.c:616 check_zero_address+0x7d/0x191()
Hardware name: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address zero!
BIOS vendor: Hewlett-Packard; Ver: F.42; Product Version: Rev 1
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32.12-pclos1.bfs #1
Call Trace:
 [<c012f69f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x81
 [<c059b65a>] ? check_zero_address+0x7d/0x191
 [<c012f6f4>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x29/0x2c
 [<c059b65a>] check_zero_address+0x7d/0x191
 [<c02b0064>] ? acpi_get_table_with_size+0x58/0xa6
 [<c059b77f>] detect_intel_iommu+0x11/0x56
 [<c0583870>] pci_iommu_alloc+0x8/0xa
 [<c058f1b2>] mem_init+0xe/0x243
 [<c0398e00>] ? allocate_threshold_blocks+0x14f/0x17e
 [<c057d6b1>] start_kernel+0x197/0x32c
 [<c057d356>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x18e
 [<c057d097>] i386_start_kernel+0x97/0x9e
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PClinuxOS2010 KDE 4.5.4

If so is this the correct place for this question?
thanks
« Last Edit: January 04, 2011, 07:14:23 AM by saltcedar »

Offline ShowMeRon

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Re: dmesg should I be concerned?
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2011, 07:20:11 AM »
After a quick google search http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=245794 , hope it helps!
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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2011, 07:27:43 AM »

Thankyou!