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Linux version 2.4.21 (root@hoch) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Fri Jun 20 16:24:28 PDT 2003
Tells you I am on a Debian System and my kernel was built with gcc 2.95.4.
The date tells when the kernel was built.
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffc0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffc0000 - 000000000fff8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fff8000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
255MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65472
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61376 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=4.21a+nesp ro root=301
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
APIC=Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Feature listed under "Processor type and features" then "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors"
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1002.280 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Several:
"Character devices" then "Virtual terminal"
"Character devices" then "Support for console on virtual terminal"
Calibrating delay loop... 1998.84 BogoMIPS
Memory: 255988k/261888k available (1523k kernel code, 5512k reserved, 614k data, 100k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a
Pentium III:
Under "Processor type and features" then "Processor family"
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.04 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Though I do not have an SMP board (Symmetric Multiprocessing Board)
Many readme suggest enabling SMP even for uniprocessor systems
"Processor type and features" then "Symmetric multi-processing support"
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1002.3394 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 100.2339 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1002339, slice: 501169
CPU0
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Netlink has limited use, you prob dont need it:
"Networking options" then "Netlink device emulation"
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.16)
Advanced Power Management:
NOTE: Some users have reported problems with enabling both APM and ACPI
"General setup" then "Advanced Power Management BIOS support"
ALSO: look through sub-items and choose!
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Quota support (only if you need/use it)
"File systems" then "Quota support"
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Suggests loading ext3:
"File systems" then "Ext3 journalling file system support"
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/W]
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
PS/2 Mouse:
"Character devices" then "Mice" then "Mouse Support (not serial and bus mice)" then "PS/2 mouse (aka "auxiliary device") support"
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
"Character devices" then "Unix98 PTY support"
good idea: "Character devices" then "(256) Maximum number of Unix98 PTYs in use (0-2048)"
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Serial Port (old fashioned Serial not USB)
"Character devices" then "Standard/generic (8250/16550 and compatible UARTs) serial support"
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Floppy Disk:
"Block devices" then "Normal floppy disk support"
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed)
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4)
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Loopback support:
"Block devices" then "Loopback device support"
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin and others
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0d.0
eth0: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:02:B3:BB:45:FE, IRQ 5.
Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0c.0
eth1: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (#2), 00:02:B3:BB:45:FF, IRQ 5.
Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
Intel EtherExpress Pro 100
"Network device support" then "Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)" then "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers" then "EtherExpressPro/100 support (eepro100, original Becker driver)" *OR* "EtherExpressPro/100 support (e100, Alternate Intel driver)"
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP:
"Network device support" then "PPP (point-to-point protocol) support"
Good idea: "Network device support" then "PPP Deflate compression"
Good idea: "Network device support" then "PPP BSD-Compress compression"
Good idea: "Network device support" then "PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIMENTAL)" (Good idea for some systems where ISP use PPPoE.)
Good idea: "Network device support" then "PPP support for async serial ports"
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
agpgart: no supported devices found.
apgart
Does not apear to recognise any. If it did, then:
"Character devices" then "/dev/agpgart (AGP Support)"
Adn select one of the item in the submenu of agpart.
[drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0
DRM:
"Character devices" then item under "DRM 4.1 drivers" like 3dfx
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 1
DRM:
"Character devices" then item under "DRM 4.1 drivers" like ATI Radeon
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Confirmation on IDE controller:
"ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support" then "ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support"
"ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support" then "Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support"
Specifics on IDE Chipset:
"ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support" then "Intel PIIXn chipsets support"
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD200BB-18DEA0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c0381f40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
This has an IDE based CD-ROM:
"ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support" then "Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support"
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 39062500 sectors (20000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2431/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP/IP Support:
"Networking options" then "TCP/IP networking"
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Using iptables for network filtering:
(instead of ipchains): "Networking options" then "Network packet filtering"
NOTE: if you can only select this or ipchains, but I think you can make
both as modules, but you can only load one module or the other.
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
UNIX Domain Sockets:
"Networking options" then "Unix domain sockets"
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Filesystems: ext2
"File systems" then "Second extended fs support"
Freeing unused kernel memory: 100k freed
Adding Swap: 979956k swap-space (priority -1)
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4)
NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0
Only if you have/use AppleTalk (like netatalk)
"Networking options" then "Appletalk protocol support"
(Best to do this as a module