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SubjectRe: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> Jiri Kosina wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>
>>> Well I'm out of the race, my attempts to re-write my eeprom using an
>>> eeprom from an equivalent laptop have totally failed and my BIOS won't boot
>>> anymore - so my laptop is == a brick.
>>
>> Uh oh. Shouldn't we put something like the patch below in Linus' tree
>> unless we get this sorted out? Otherwise more and more people who use -rc
>> kernels will run into this, and will get their hardware [hopefully
>> temporarily, but not all users are able to re-flash their network card
>> EEPROMs, right] bricked.
>>
>> I know that it is quite aggressive and is going to disable wired
>> networking on a lot of systems that have been functioning properly,
>> therefore RFC ...
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
>> Subject: [PATCH] [RFC] E1000E: temporarily disable e1000e driver
>>
>> E1000E: temporarily disable e1000e driver
>
> That seems a bit drastic, particularly when the debugging was beginning to
> point to another culprit.
>
> We have equal case at this point to disable r8169 and i915_drm, no?
>

No we actually are more likely unable to do anything from the kernel,
if its happening from userspace

firstly we need a reflash utility that is safe, otherwise people who
have the issue can't reproduce it,
and people who don't have the issue don't want to play with it.

I think e1000e may enable a BAR or something that causes the issue to
break this hw., I haven't seen it broken on any
machine where e1000e wasn't loaded yet. Again the r8169 might be the
same issue, but it maybe because the bar was enabled.

Dave.


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