2017-03-07 13:49:11

by Klaus Dittrich

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Subject: linux-4.10.1 "[Firmware Bug]: disabling VPD access"

mainboard GigaByte-Z77X-UD3H

[ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x1c, date
= 2015-02-26
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.10.1 (root@p31g) (gcc version 6.3.1
20170302 (GCC) ) #3 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 7 11:50:41 CET 2017
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=../vmlinuz-4.10.1 root=/dev/sda1
ro rootfstype=ext4 file_caps=1

cpu
[ 0.029577] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
(family: 0x6, model: 0x3a, stepping: 0x9)


dmesg
..
[ 0.586105] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 0.586171] pci 0000:00:02.0: Video device with shadowed ROM at [mem
0x000c0000-0x000dffff]

[ 0.586656] PCI: CLS mismatch (64 != 32), using 64 bytes
[ 0.586658] pci 0000:05:00.0: [Firmware Bug]: disabling VPD access
(can't determine size of non-standard VPD format)

[ 0.586777] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[ 0.586839] software IO TLB [mem 0x99572000-0x9d572000] (64MB) mapped
at [ffff880099572000-ffff88009d571fff]
..


I got the above firmware bug error message.
Is there a fix already?
Anything I can do?

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Regards Klaus