Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:06:23 +1000 | From | "Dave Airlie" <> | Subject | Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM |
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Jesse Barnes wrote: > >> However, the "Factory" log at #425480 *does* indicate that a GEM aware >> 2D driver was loaded (the "[drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter >> 5" message indicates as much), but the kernel was definitely not GEM >> aware otherwise the call would have succeeded. So that rules out GEM >> proper, but it could still be a bug in one of the non-GEM paths in the >> experimental xf86-video-intel bits the various distros seem to be >> picking up. > > That was exactly the point I was trying to make, that these error paths > will probably also need auditing, once we rule out the possibility of > NVRAM being overwritten from kernelspace. >
Well the non-GEM paths are really the old codepaths we used in the older drivers..
So unless we do something really dumb...
I'd target three areas PAT, pciaccess and e1000e itself.
Dave.
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