Re: Compaq Deskpro/PCI
Dr. Werner Fink (werner@suse.de)
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:33:28 +0200
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:19:54 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Sven <sveneric@xs4all.nl>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I recently bought a Compaq Deskpro 166Mhz Pentium / PCI bus with 16MB.
> When i recompiled the kernel for 586 (i used to have a 486) with PCI
> support the following message showed up during the booting of the new
> kernel (1.3.85) (i also tried some older ones)
>
> ide_setup: hdc=cdrom
> Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
> pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fa000
> pcibios_init: entry in high memory, unable to access
> pci_init: no BIOS32 detected
> Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 66.76 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 14900k/16384k available (648k kernel code, 384k reserved, 452k data)
>
> Can somebody explain to me what these messages mean?
> Dispite these messages the kernel works fine
>
> Thanks in advance
>
Maybe Compaq does not use the PCI standards within the mainboard BIOS??
Have a look onto http://www-c724.uibk.ac.at/XL/
Werner