Bad VPD checksum

[Thomas Sandford]

"Gardner Bell" <gbell72 at rogers.com> wrote:
> I just recently upgraded my 6.2-PRERELEASE system to 7.0-BETA2 and am
> noticing the following bad checksums on my two on board broadcom
> gigabit ethernet cards.
>
> dan at mx1~% dmesg | grep VPD
> pci0:10:9:0: bad VPD cksum, remain 72
> pci0:10:9:1: bad VPD cksum, remain 72
> ...

I am getting a similar message with the onboard gigabit ethernet cards in my 
Compaq server, with both 7.0-BETA1.5 and
7.0-BETA2:

...
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 #0: Fri Nov  2 16:47:33 UTC 
2007
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: 
root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
...
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: pci0:2:1:0: bad VPD cksum, remain 223
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: bge0: <Compaq NC7781 Gigabit Server Adapter, 
ASIC rev. 0x1002> mem 0xf7ef0000-0xf7efffff irq 29 at device 1.0 on pci2
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: brgphy0: <BCM5703 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 
1 on miibus0
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 
100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: bge0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:cd:f2:9a:57
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: bge0: [ITHREAD]
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: pci0:2:2:0: bad VPD cksum, remain 223
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: bge1: <Compaq NC7781 Gigabit Server Adapter, 
ASIC rev. 0x1002> mem 0xf7ee0000-0xf7eeffff irq 31 at device 2.0 on pci2
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: miibus1: <MII bus> on bge1
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: brgphy1: <BCM5703 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 
1 on miibus1
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: brgphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 
100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: bge1: Ethernet address: 00:0b:cd:f2:9a:56
Nov 12 14:34:19 miriam kernel: bge1: [ITHREAD]
...

-- 
Thomas Sandford