Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm2 -- PCI: Bus #03 (-#06) is hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#02) (try 'pci=assign-busses')

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Thursday 01 June 2006 22:31, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 09:55:16PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 June 2006 21:30, Miles Lane wrote:
> > > Yes, my machine is a dv1240us HP laptop.  The machine appears to be
> > > working fine.  I haven't tested all the devices, but the ones I am
> > > using regularly are all happy campers.
> >
> > It seems many HP and Compaq notebooks that this problem; I've got the
> > same thing on my NC6000 and it works fine too. BIOS problem?
> >
> > Andrew, I think this message should be silenced (or at least the note
> > about LKML) if there's no evidence of breakage. For the last LKML 4-5
> > reporters, they reported no side-affects. At the very least, the message
> > could be toned down somewhat.

I've just noticed I get this on my Athlon64/nForce4 desktop machine too!

[   26.985673] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[   26.985675] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[   26.990495] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:09.0
[   26.990528] PCI: Bus #02 (-#05) is hidden behind transparent bridge #01 
(-#02) (try 'pci=assign-busses')
[   26.990531] Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this 
permanently
[   26.990716] Boot video device is 0000:06:00.

This machine has PCI, PCIe, a heinous PCI-to-Cardbus adaptor with a 16bit 
PCMCIA card in it! Still working fine.

> Bernhard put that message in there for a good reason, let's let him
> decide if something needs to change or not.

Sure, of course. My bad.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.