Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:35:08 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Gardner Bell <gbell72@rogers.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bad VPD checksum Message-ID: <200711121035.16474.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.0.99999.0711111529530.20729@ync.qbhto.arg> References: <868740.65655.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <alpine.BSF.0.99999.0711111529530.20729@ync.qbhto.arg>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHN5i85ZPcIHs/zowRAvClAJoCU4H3V2AldTAmAi6Wei/j+5CGqwCgkPxM fET57jPaG7aKMvtFKCUtt/w= =IS6z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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