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

From: Jeff Kirsher
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 18:12:55 EST


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:07 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Dave Airlie" <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:09:09 +1000
>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:05 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
>> > 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.
>> >
>>
>> I don't think OpenSUSE was shipping any of the GEM bits.
>
> Good data point, can someone confirm this? Also, what X server version
> is the effected OpenSUSE shipping?
> --


OpenSuSE 11 ships x server version 7.3.

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Cheers,
Jeff
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