From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kok, Auke" Subject: Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:45:01 -0700 Message-ID: <48DBF84D.6020905@intel.com> References: <20080923.211215.193696086.davem@davemloft.net> <21d7e9970809232245x6a91c6e2l552ff039d07e2017@mail.gmail.com> <20080924.003638.71148740.davem@davemloft.net> <20080924191022.GC2591@phobos.i.cabal.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Kyle McMartin , David Miller , airlied-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, david.vrabel-kQvG35nSl+M@public.gmane.org, rjw-KKrjLPT3xs0@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, kernel-testers-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, chrisl-pghWNbHTmq7QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Kyle McMartin wrote: > >> I've been working on a patch to detect (using a timer and checking at >> up/down) whether or not the flash has been corrupted, and, if it is >> rewrite it with the saved good copy (which obviously only helps if >> it's the same boot.) > > Thanks, looks interesting e1000e hack that might possibly be of some help. > > BUT! please have a look at > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/24/133 > > Looks like this device got a lot of 0xff written somewhere in its config > space, right? But it isn't Intel card at all. I asked that person and he said reverting to an older kernel made it work again, also there is a fix out as romieu pointed out as well, so this seems to be a different bug for now. Auke