Strange Dmesg error

[Drew Tomlinson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dragoncrest" <dragoncrest at voyager.net>
To: <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 7:58 PM
Subject: Strange Dmesg error


> Today after recompiling my kernel I noticed something on my screen that
> caught my curiousity.  I got the following message:
>
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0000> can't assign resources
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources
> Apr 23 22:22:05 bsdbox /kernel: unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources
>
> Anyone know what this means?  All I did was add the following lines to my
> kernel config.
>
> options         VESA
> device          pcm
> options         PNPBIOS
> options         USER_LDT
>
> Would any of those have generated the said errors, and are they something
> to be concerned about, or can I safely ignore them?

I asked a similar question after enabling PNPBIOS about a year ago.  I don't
remember the technical answer but it was something along the lines of
"hardware that doesn't support PNP".  In any event, the errors can be safely
ignored.

HTH,

Drew