Re: [Oops 2.5.51] PnPBIOS: cat /proc/bus/pnp/escd

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 08:58:13 EST

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> 'cat /proc/bus/pnp/escd' consistantly produces this:

> EIP: 0088:[<00007b74>] Not tainted

You blew up in BIOS code. Your BIOS has a crap PNPBIOS implementation.
Send the output of dmidecode[1] and it can get added to the blacklist.

[1] http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/dmidecode.c

Dave

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