linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM

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Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:54:53 -0400
From:	"Parag Warudkar" <parag.lkml@...il.com>
To:	"Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	"Dave Airlie" <airlied@...il.com>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	david.vrabel@....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

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote:

> Actually another user has just reported [1] that his e1000e card got
> screwed up exactly at the point when the installer was probing the X
> configuration. So this really seems a lot like some lethal interaction
> between intel graphics and the network card.
>

Another data point in the support of this theory - I've been running
all various 2.6.27-rc releases (including rc7) on my HP machine which
has an embedded 82566 and Radeon x1650 graphics - and so far I have
not seen any problems.

Parag
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