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SubjectRe: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM
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From: "Dave Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:51:23 +1000

> 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.

All PCI device drivers in the kernel first do pci_enable_device()
which essentially enables all BARs.

The flash lives in BAR 1 of the E1000E, for example.


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