well, i hate following up my own posts like this but i forgot to mention that i have debian 1.2.6 distribution and the kernel version is 2.0.27.
sorry. On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, A. Sinan Unur wrote: > hi, > > yesterday i decided to go ahead and compile the kernel with sound support > and get rid of a bunch of scsi, cd-rom and ethernet drivers. anyway, > after the first boot, i checked /var/adm/messages and found some > unexpected diagnostics regarding the PCI bus. basically, before i built > the kernel, the following two lines used to be logged to the messages file: > > PCI BIOS Rev 2.10 > Probing PCI hardware > > now, in addition to that i get: > > cache L2 not supported > CPU-PCI posted write not supported > CPU-Memory posted write not supported > PCI-Memory posted write not supported > PCI-Burst not supported > > the system seems to perform at roughly the same level as before. i am > kind of baffled by these messages. anyway, here is some more info > > i have: > Intel 486 DX4/75 > UM 8810 APIO (with the stupid buggy cmd640) PCI Motherboard (v.3.2) > 256K L2 cache > 16 Mb RAM > Phoenix BIOS (v.4.04) > > i configured the kernel using make menuconfig and selected both options > regarding PCI bios. > any ideas?? > > -- Sinan > > ps: i would appreciate it if you could cc your response to me ... i might > have to unsubscribe from the list due to heavy traffic ... i receive my > mail at a really congested machine. > > ******************************************************************* > A. Sinan Unur WWWWWW > |--O+O > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] C ^ > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asu1/ \ ~/ > ******************************************************************* > > -- Sinan ******************************************************************* A. Sinan Unur WWWWWW |--O+O mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] C ^ http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asu1/ \ ~/ *******************************************************************
