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

[Jiri Kosina]

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.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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