Running on an HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 (AMD EPYC 7402P 24 core) I see an error from the smartpqi driver in dmesg output, "unrecognized PQI config table section ID: 0x5". Looking at the source (smartpqi_init.c) the error message seems unnecessary. The driver is looking for one specific config table section, not trying to parse them all. Unrecognized sections are fine. Also there is a "WARN" message for each connected device. The DBG_WARN in pqisrc_add_device should be a DBG_INFO, which would disable the message in normal operation. (See PQISRC_LOG_LEVEL in smartpqi_defines.h.) Here is the relevant fragment of dmesg output FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64 [...] acpi0: <HPE Server> on motherboard [...] pcib11: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> numa-domain 0 on acpi0 pci11: <ACPI PCI bus> numa-domain 0 on pcib11 pci11: <base peripheral, IOMMU> at device 0.2 (no driver attached) pcib12: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.1 numa-domain 0 on pci11 pci12: <ACPI PCI bus> numa-domain 0 on pcib12 smartpqi0: <P408i-a SR Gen10> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0x90500000-0x90507fff at device 0.0 numa-domain 0 on pci12 smartpqi0: using MSI-X interrupts (48 vectors) [ERROR]::[67:655.0][CPU 14][pqisrc_process_config_table][457]:unrecognized PQI config table section ID: 0x5 [WARN]:[67:655.0][CPU 14][pqisrc_add_device][1217]:vendor: HP MM2000JEFRC model: MM2000JEFRC bus:0 target:64 lun:0 is_physical_device:0x1 expose_device:0x1 volume_offline 0x0 volume_status 0x0 [WARN]:[67:655.0][CPU 14][pqisrc_add_device][1217]:vendor: HP MM2000JEFRC model: MM2000JEFRC bus:0 target:65 lun:0 is_physical_device:0x1 expose_device:0x1 volume_offline 0x0 volume_status 0x0 [WARN]:[67:655.0][CPU 14][pqisrc_add_device][1217]:vendor: HPE Smart Adapter model: Smart Adapter bus:0 target:66 lun:0 is_physical_device:0x1 expose_device:0x1 volume_offline 0x0 volume_status 0x0 [WARN]:[67:655.0][CPU 14][pqisrc_add_device][1217]:vendor: HPE P408i-a SR Gen10 model: P408i-a SR Gen10 bus:2 target:1088 lun:0 is_physical_device:0x0 expose_device:0x1 volume_offline 0x0 volume_status 0x0
I submitted a patch to the driver maintainer here: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23023
A commit references this bug: Author: markj Date: Tue Jan 7 16:07:31 UTC 2020 New revision: 356445 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/356445 Log: Decrease logging severity when adding a device or reading config table. In PR 243056 a user reports some spam from smartpqi(4). In particular, the driver warns about an unrecognized PQI_CONF_TABLE_SECTION_SOFT_RESET section (not yet defined in the driver, but handled in Linux), but this doesn't cause any problems. The Linux driver also does not warn about unrecognized sections. Also do not log a warning when a device is added, since this is routine. Lower severity to DISC, to match pqisrc_remove_device(). PR: 243056 Reviewed by: sbruno MFC after: 1 week Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23023 Changes: head/sys/dev/smartpqi/smartpqi_discovery.c head/sys/dev/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c
A commit references this bug: Author: markj Date: Tue Jan 14 02:44:25 UTC 2020 New revision: 356719 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/356719 Log: MFC r356445: Decrease logging severity when adding a device or reading config table. PR: 243056 Changes: _U stable/12/ stable/12/sys/dev/smartpqi/smartpqi_discovery.c stable/12/sys/dev/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c
Fixed in stable/12. Thank you for the report.