From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 21:20:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEADE16A46B for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jkim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from anuket.mj.niksun.com (gwnew.niksun.com [65.115.46.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D81013C43E for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jkim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from niksun.com (anuket [10.70.0.5]) by anuket.mj.niksun.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lAGLKQBL017249; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:20:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jkim@FreeBSD.org) From: Jung-uk Kim To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:20:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <868740.65655.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <200711121035.16474.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200711161620.24562.jkim@FreeBSD.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4817/Fri Nov 16 15:06:29 2007 on anuket.mj.niksun.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Gardner Bell , Doug Barton Subject: Re: Bad VPD checksum X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:20:28 -0000 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