Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:20:17 -0500 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: Gardner Bell <gbell72@rogers.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Bad VPD checksum Message-ID: <200711161620.24562.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.0.99999.0711120137350.22614@qbhto.arg> References: <868740.65655.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <200711121035.16474.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <alpine.BSF.0.99999.0711120137350.22614@qbhto.arg>
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On Monday 12 November 2007 04:38 am, Doug Barton wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Doug Barton wrote: > >> I've been getting these in HEAD for a long time now, never found > >> the time to follow up though: > >> > >> pci0:9:0:0: bad VPD cksum, remain 14 > >> > >> Happy to help with debugging efforts. > > > > I think this is a non-issue. > > > > PCI Vital Product Data is stored on an EEPROM and if the card > > creator is too lazy/cheap to either install one, or program it > > you get VPD checksum errors. > > > > I don't think it is bge specific because you're supposed to be > > able to read VPD in a generic fashion. > > > > (I am no PCI expert so please correct me if wrong) > > Ok, if you're right and this is essentially harmless, it should be > hidden behind bootverbose for the release. Done: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/pci.c.diff?r1=1.355;r2=1.356 Jung-uk Kim
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