Re: 2.6.18-mm1

[Andi Kleen]

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 09:39, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Wednesday 27 September 2006 04:04, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> 
> >> When I apply:
> >> x86_64-mm-insert-ioapics-and-local-apic-into-resource-map
> >> 
> >> My e1000 fails to initializes and complains about a bad eeprom checksum.
> >> I haven't tracked this down to root cause yet and I am in the process of
> > building
> >> 2.6.18-mm1 with just that patch reverted to confirm that is the only cause.
> >
> > Is this with Linux BIOS?
> 
> Yes.  Not that it matters in this case.

Well Linus BIOS is known to play very fast-and-lose regarding supplying
correct BIOS tables.

Perhaps it conflicts with a broken e820 map?

-Andi
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