Hi all, Noticed this in my Ubuntu 19.04 dmesg: [ 2.094782] platform eisa.0: Probing EISA bus 0 [ 2.094783] platform eisa.0: EISA: Cannot allocate resource for mainboard [ 2.094784] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1 [ 2.094785] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2 [ 2.094786] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 3 [ 2.094787] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4 [ 2.094788] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5 [ 2.094789] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 6 [ 2.094790] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 7 [ 2.094791] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 8 [ 2.094792] platform eisa.0: EISA: Detected 0 cards
First time I've ever seen this on Ubuntu or any other distributions. My motherboard is an Asus Crosshair V Formula - not that new but not that old also, I think from 2011 or there abouts. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1543919 Title: Remove EISA support from main kernel image and make it M (modular) Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: (This is a sort of RfC. ) I have a PC that still has the good old PCI ports, but I am 100% sure that the active use of EISA dates back yet more 10 years. In other words, boards that _only_ support EISA date back 25 years now, while those that provide *one* EISA slot date back roughly 15 years (one of the Elitegroup K7 series comes to mind, from about 2001/02). So the EISA support *should* be provided, as we should even support ancient hardware (Linux principle :)) However, why the EISA support is *compiled in* is beyond me. For instance, it creates lots of totally unnecessary noise in dmesg: [ 0.080000] EISA bus registered [ 1.598316] platform eisa.0: Probing EISA bus 0 [ 1.598345] platform eisa.0: Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1 (repeated 10 times, i=i+1) [ 1.598368] platform eisa.0: EISA: Detected 0 cards For a 1997 mainboard, this would make perfect sense. But it is very probable that said mainboard would require linux-image-extra nonetheless to support some days-of-yore chipset. So why not leave it as a *module*, while removing its support from main kernel image once and for all? Your turn. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1543919/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
