Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:07:12 +1000 | From | "Dave Airlie" <> | Subject | Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM |
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> 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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