Re: Kernel messages during startup

[Ralf Jung <ralfjung-e@gmx.de>]

Hi,

> On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:26:46 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote:
> > every time I boot my laptop (HP Compaq 615) into Debian testing, some
> > kernel messages are printed on the boot console:
> > [    0.470960] pci_root PNP0A03:00: address space collision: host bridge
> > window [mem 0x000cc000-0x000cffff] conflicts with Video ROM [mem
> > 0x000c0000-0x000ce9ff] [    0.471052] pci_root PNP0A03:00: address space
> > collision: host bridge window [mem 0x000ec000-0x000effff] conflicts with
> > reserved [mem 0x000ef000-0x000fffff]
> 
> (...)
> 
> There is an upstream bug for those errors:
> 
> Bug 38522 - address space collision error message on boot
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38522
I think this is only about the first one, the other one is slightly different 
("conflicts with Video RAM" vs. "conflicts with reserved"), and it was already 
present in 2.6.39.

> For the rest... well, this may require an additional Google search :-)
Well, I did that, and for some of them I found that supposedly, they are 
harmless. I wonder however if that qualifies as a bug, i.e. is it justified to 
report a bug against the kernel (at bugs.debian.org) saying that there is this 
message during startup?

Kind regards,
Ralf