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

[Dave Airlie]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> BTW, why is the PAT fix implented in commit 242e3df80 needed only for
> radeons?
>

Good question, mainly because only radeons showed the illegal mapping crash,
which was mapping via sysfs _wc files and then doing a UC mapping in
the kernel over the
same address space would fail. However this was VRAM related and these
things don't have VRAM.

Dave.

> --
> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs
>
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