Hi, on an ancient GX1 Geode embedded board (Evo T20/Wyse wt3235le Thin Client, which are cheap (<$10) and low power x86 embeded platform) , dmesg is getting constantly spammed with "PnPBIOS: pnp_dock_thread: unexpected status 0x5" during and after boot.
Any ideas what this means and how to stop that? It seems it comes from drivers/pnp/pnpbios/bioscalls.c -> pnpbios_print_status() Tried adding pnpbios=off, but with that the system does not boot anymore. Being curious, why a non-existing docking-station is being "polled at regular intervals" (i.e. every 2 seconds - see drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c ) >From >http://books.google.de/books?id=ibLa4I5EnC4C&pg=PA231&lpg=PA231&dq=pnp+docking+bios&source=bl&ots=ekCFm34U_B&sig=9Z9L55IAL7_3NtuM10jT3serncM&hl=de&sa=X&ei=mAZcVILnJsviO-r5gNgI&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=pnp%20docking%20bios&f=false > i read: "Function 05h - Get Docking Status Information at page 251" it seems this is being the result of a "docking event" ? Does this mean, my system is erroneusly generating such docking events, even if there is no docking station at all? regards roland ps: i`m booting via plopKexec Bootloader ( http://www.plop.at/de/plopkexec.html ) , as i can put kernel+rootfs on external usb and don`t need to reflash the device, which is complicated task. pps: some few old pointers from other people reporting it: https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/02/msg00238.html http://sourceforge.net/p/open-evot20/mailman/message/20065770/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/