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

[Dave Airlie]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
>> Hopefully tglx can supply some traces, I think getting an interrupt
>> during device startup can possibly access the nvram
>> http://www.tglx.de/~tglx/wtf2.txt
>> seems to suggest bad things could happen.
>
> Actually another user has just reported [1] that his e1000e card got
> screwed up exactly at the point when the installer was probing the X
> configuration. So this really seems a lot like some lethal interaction
> between intel graphics and the network card.
>
> Dave (Airlie, too many Daves on CC here really), do you by any chance see
> any recent change in kernel intel graphic parts of DRM be causing this
> breakage?
>

Okay some from the kernel if this isn't in 2.6.26, the drm has
introduced no patches
I can even remotely claim might affect this. So its either userspace
or PAT related.

Dave.
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