linux-4.10.1 [Firmware Bug]: disabling VPD access

From: Klaus Dittrich
Date: Tue Mar 07 2017 - 11:38:55 EST


System information:

[ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x1c, date = 2015-02-26

[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.10.1 (root@xyz) (gcc version 6.3.1 20170302 (GCC) ) #3 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 7 11:50:41 CET 2017

[ 0.000000] SMBIOS 2.7 present.
[ 0.000000] DMI: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./Z77X-UD3H, BIOS F17 08/22/2012

[ 0.030029] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz (family: 0x6, model: 0x3a, stepping: 0x9)

Error message:

[ 0.588565] PCI: CLS mismatch (64 != 32), using 64 bytes
[ 0.588568] pci 0000:05:00.0: [Firmware Bug]: disabling VPD access (can't determine size of non-standard VPD format)
[ 0.588689] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)

Is this a kernel, a microcode or a mobo bug?

Anything I can do?

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regards Klaus