curiousities in 6.0beta1 dmesg

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 17 July 2005 04:13 pm, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently upgraded to:
> bash-2.05b$ uname -a
> FreeBSD prolepsis.math.uiuc.edu 6.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 #2: Sat
> Jul 16 21:34:06 UTC 2005
> kaduk at prolepsis.math.uiuc.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROLEPSIS  i386
>
> from 5.4-Release using a source upgrade, and I noticed a few things in the
> dmesg whilst it was booting that struck me as a bit odd.
> Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 #2: Sat Jul 16 21:34:06 UTC 2005
>     kaduk at prolepsis.math.uiuc.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROLEPSIS
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.50GHz (2492.65-MHz 686-class
> CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
>  
> Features=0xbfebf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMO
>V,PAT, PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>   Features2=0x4400<CNTX-ID,<b14>>
> real memory  = 1073405952 (1023 MB)
> avail memory = 1037340672 (989 MB)
> npx0: [FAST]
> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> acpi0: <DELL CPi R  > on motherboard
> pci_link0: <ACPI PCI Link LNKA> irq 11 on acpi0
> pci_link1: <ACPI PCI Link LNKB> irq 11 on acpi0
>
>
> [ pci_link1 seems to have an irq here. . . ]
>
>
> pci_link2: <ACPI PCI Link LNKC> irq 11 on acpi0
> pci_link3: <ACPI PCI Link LNKD> irq 11 on acpi0
> pci_link4: <ACPI PCI Link LNKE> on acpi0
> pci_link5: <ACPI PCI Link LNKH> irq 11 on acpi0
> Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu0
> acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
> acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
> acpi_cmbat1: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
> acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
> acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
> acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
> pci_link1: Unable to choose an IRQ
>
>
> [ so why does it need to choose an irq here? ]

It's not quite that simple. :(  It may be that the link says that irq 11 is 
not valid.  Can you provide a verbose dmesg?

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