From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755233AbYIYSkx (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:40:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752967AbYIYSkl (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:40:41 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:56785 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752819AbYIYSkk (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:40:40 -0400 Message-ID: <48DBDAF1.3050708@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:39:45 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jiri Kosina CC: Kyle McMartin , David Miller , airlied@gmail.com, 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 Subject: Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM References: <20080923.211215.193696086.davem@davemloft.net> <21d7e9970809232245x6a91c6e2l552ff039d07e2017@mail.gmail.com> <20080924.003638.71148740.davem@davemloft.net> <20080924191022.GC2591@phobos.i.cabal.ca> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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. > That looks like the device disappeared completely. -hpa