What does the "PCI:BIOS Bug:MCFG" message seen at startup mean?

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Issue

  • During system startup these two messages may appear on the console and in /var/log/messages (possibly with a different address value in the first message):

    PCI:BIOS Bug:MCFG area at e0000000 is not E820-reserved
    PCI:NOT Using MMCONFIG
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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