From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 11 11:56:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1291537B417 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:56:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0355.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.100] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16kVtf-0003Dm-00; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:55:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3C8D0BB6.D31379B3@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:55:34 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Warnings in my bootup (dmesg.boot) References: <20020311191653.A1421@hpdi.ath.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiten Pandya wrote: > I updated my kernel two days ago, and I am having some weird warnings, > which I haven't seen before. [ ... ] > WARNING: Driver mistake: make_dev(perfmon) called before SI_SUB_DRIVERS > > -- I have configured my kernel with the PERFMON option. -- This means that it's trying to register a driver with a subsystem that has not yet been initialized. You probably need to split it off, and initialize it seperately ysing a SYSINIT in the SI_SUB_DRIVERS, SI_ORDER_ANY. If you have trouble doing this, let me know, and I can take a look at it for you (it's going to be a bit of a pain if it's allowed to be loaded later; if so, the easiest thing to do is to simply load it later, e.g. in /etc/rc.local). > Using $PIR table, 8 entries at 0xc00f7100 > ACPI-0161: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables: Could not get RSDP, AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES > ACPI-0213: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables: Could not load tables: AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES > ACPI: table load failed: AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES > > -- does the above mean ACPI is having problems? -- Probably; if you can break this out as a seperate problem report and Cc: Mike Smith, it's much more likely to be fixed; he owns the ACPI stuff. > rl0: Realtek 8139B detected. Warning, this may be unstable in autoselect mode > rl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:a7:04:d7:91 > > -- Why would it be unstable in autoselect mode? -- Because Realtek adapters with that chipset are known to have problems with autoselect. The easiest fix is to ignore it (if you don't have problems) or specify the settings on the ifconfig line (if you do). > And also, what does kernel profiling (profile option) really mean, and > what would be the use of it? If you have to ask, you should probably disable it. 8-). See the handbook for more information on kernel profiling, if you are curious. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message