From: Mikael Pettersson on
Booting 2.6.35-rc1 on a Sun Blade 2500 Red with builtin tg3 I get:

tg3.c:v3.110 (April 9, 2010)
PCI: Enabling device: (0000:00:03.0), cmd 2
....
tg3 0000:00:03.0: vpd r/w failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.
tg3 0000:00:03.0: vpd r/w failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.
tg3 0000:00:03.0: vpd r/w failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.
tg3 0000:00:03.0: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(none) rev 1002] (PCI:66MHz:64-bit) MAC address ...
tg3 0000:00:03.0: eth0: attached PHY is 5703 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
tg3 0000:00:03.0: eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
tg3 0000:00:03.0: eth0: dma_rwctrl[763f0000] dma_mask[32-bit]
....
tg3 0000:00:03.0: eth0: No firmware running
tg3 0000:00:03.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
tg3 0000:00:03.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX

The three 'vpd r/w failed' messages are new and did not occur with 2.6.34
or earlier kernels.

/Mikael
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