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

From: Dave Airlie
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 17:04:09 EST


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
> David, was this also your case, or did the EEPROM got garbled out of a
> sudden?

I have no evidence in my logs of a graphics panic, but I do do a lot
of graphics devel,
so it might be a possiblity but I'd hate to handwave it away at that.

Dave.

>
> [1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425480
>
> --
> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs
>
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