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 -- This .signature sanitized for your protectionReceived on Mon Nov 12 2007 - 08:38:56 UTC
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