Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:38:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Gardner Bell <gbell72@rogers.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad VPD checksum Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.0.99999.0711120137350.22614@qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <200711121035.16474.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <868740.65655.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <alpine.BSF.0.99999.0711111529530.20729@ync.qbhto.arg> <200711121035.16474.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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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.
Doug
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