Re: 2.4.47 bug - PnPBIOS GPFs and kernel panics

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 17:37, Joseph Pingenot wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Upon enabling PnPBIOS in the kernel, compiling, and rebooting into it,
>   I get greeted with the following:
> PnPBIOS: Found PnPBIOS installation structure at 0xc00f7d50
> PnPBIOS: PnPBIOS version 1.0 entry 0xf0000:0xaa05, dseg 0x400
> pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
> pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
> pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x480-0x48f has been reserved
> pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x4db-0x4db has been reserved
> pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x1000-0x105f has been reserved
> general protection fault: 0040

Congratulations your PnP BIOS appears to be buggy. Can you send me the
output of dmidecode, also let me know if you used acpi