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    SubjectRe: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM
    On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Frans Pop wrote:

    > Extra datapoint. As far as I've seen this problem has not yet been
    > reported by any people running Debian. This could point to X.Org as
    > Debian currently has 7.3 while I think the reports so far have been with
    > 7.4.

    Yes, I think that xorg/xorg i915 driver/libdrm/GEM/whatever are the
    biggest suspect currently, according to the data that has been gathered so
    far.

    Still, what confuses me a little bit -- the EEPROM of the card is set to
    all 0xff, once the corruption happens. Isn't that a quite a coincidence,
    that bytes representing "nothing" in this context are used?

    If being set to 0 (it's so easy to call memset(0) on a bogus pointer,
    there are usually lots of them in the code) or to random garbage, it would
    seem to be much more understandable, than 0xff.

    --
    Jiri Kosina
    SUSE Labs



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