Re: Bad VPD checksum

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