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FromJesse Barnes <>
SubjectRe: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM
DateThu, 25 Sep 2008 09:08:36 -0700
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:33 pm Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > That said, adding a check to the x86 code would be a good thing to do;
> > I'll hack up a patch tomorrow unless someone beats me to it.
>
> The problem here is that what we desperately need first is a method to
> restore the original EEPROM contents after it gets corrupted (David Airlie
> has, sadly, apparently bricked his notebook while trying to do so).
> Without this, we can put a lot of debugging/protecting patches into the
> kernel, but we won't be able to succesfully verify anything, because
> testing wouldn't be possible.
>
> Added Jesse and Karsten to CC, as they are working on such a tool right
> now, as far as I know.

I should be able to test the mmap fix independently of the e1000 breakage at 
least... lemme try it out now...

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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