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Message-Id: <20080923.140519.268233735.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:05:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: jkosina@...e.cz
Cc: david.vrabel@....com, airlied@...il.com, rjw@...k.pl,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org,
chrisl@...are.com
Subject: Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:29:16 +0200 (CEST)
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, David Miller wrote:
>
> > So I went through the changes from 2.6.27-rc5 until the SHA1
> > ID ec0c15afb41fd9ad45b53468b60db50170e22346 and there were
> > definitely no E1000 or E1000E changes during that time.
>
> Some recent comments on [1] seem to indicate that this is somehow coupled
> into prior problems/panics with Intel graphics.
My current suspicion in all of this is either the GEM kernel patches
or recent X server.
However, the eeprom/nvram programming sequence seems non-trivial on
the e1000e. You have to execute a set of precise register writes
and register polls to successfully write things out to the nvram.
This makes something like a random scribble out to MMIO space less
likely to cause this problem.
Is there some linear mapping of the nvram that could be written to
on these cards?
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