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From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: "Neftin, Sasha" <sasha.neftin@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
	Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Fuxbrumer,
	Devora" <devora.fuxbrumer@intel.com>,
	"Ruinskiy, Dima" <dima.ruinskiy@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: e1000e: Recover at least in-memory copy of NVM checksum
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:41:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220131164105.GA29636@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d32ac7da-f460-6d7a-5f7f-9c9d873bf393@intel.com>

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:51:07PM +0200, Neftin, Sasha wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
> For security reasons starting from the TGL platform SPI controller will be
> locked for SW access. I've double-checked with our HW architect, not from
> SPT, from TGP. So, first, we can change the mac type e1000_pch_cnp to
> e1000_pch_tgp (as fix for initial patch)

ok, that would fix the mentioned bug. Are you sending a patch for that ?

> Do we want (second) to allow HW initialization with the "wrong" NVM
> checksum? It could cause unexpected (HW) behavior in the future. Even if you
> will "recover" check in shadow RAM - there is no guarantee that NVM is good.

sure. Out of curiosity why is the NVM fixup there in the first place ?

Thomas.

-- 
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea.                                                [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-31 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-27 15:08 [PATCH net] net: e1000e: Recover at least in-memory copy of NVM checksum Thomas Bogendoerfer
2022-01-31 10:51 ` Neftin, Sasha
2022-01-31 16:41   ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2022-01-31 18:10     ` Neftin, Sasha

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