From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753941AbYIYE0e (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:26:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751616AbYIYE0Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:26:25 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.235]:12658 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750841AbYIYE0Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:26:24 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nG7pnZOZnhw/kfeaAMzEiLddZIi6XCMXlZOYeCKi0fJ3GmYMy16TTMfktmYkwxWaaf DIoplcpuW1hf4XmGlrHs5q92VwDNpU6YGJb8NxOrS6fR1pph1m0lmjyf5uX5wyDcrDf5 N2AteiXZZ6AL2ofHQcov636oo8RIRVXNPQu8Q= Message-ID: <48DB12C9.5080104@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:25:45 -0700 From: Jesse Brandeburg User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Airlie CC: Jiri Kosina , David Miller , jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, david.vrabel@csr.com, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org, chrisl@vmware.com, Ingo Molnar , jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org Subject: Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM References: <20080923.150722.141587696.davem@davemloft.net> <9929d2390809231512w160d221axa2923a6b293a041@mail.gmail.com> <20080923.211215.193696086.davem@davemloft.net> <21d7e9970809241722w7c3bb6a5w1af5801b7380169d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970809241722w7c3bb6a5w1af5801b7380169d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Airlie wrote: >>> If the MMIO space regions of the video cards sit right before the >>> E1000E ones on the effected systems, that would pretty much >>> convince me that this is the kind of problem we are having here. >> Unfortunately, looking at the lspci outputs that are in >> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425480 it seems to me that the >> MMIO regions are quite far away from each other. on my ich9 based system the e1000e BAR1 regions are back to back with both the vga memory map and the audio mem, either of which could be the mangler, but more likely vga device (say X maybe) since it is mapped directly in front of the e1000e BAR1 space. > Yup on my laptop these were far away and I wondered what could mangle > things that badly. > > Well I'm out of the race, my attempts to re-write my eeprom using an > eeprom from an equivalent laptop > have totally failed and my BIOS won't boot anymore - so my laptop is == a brick. I'm really sorry to hear that, I wonder if the laptop has an "emergency bios update" mode like many PCs used to through a jumper. Dave A., let us know if you make any recovery progress. I plan to try some random writes tomorrow to my BAR1 space and see if my flash gets erased. Jesse