Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:45:01 -0700 | From | "Kok, Auke" <> | Subject | Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM |
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Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Kyle McMartin wrote: > >> I've been working on a patch to detect (using a timer and checking at >> up/down) whether or not the flash has been corrupted, and, if it is >> rewrite it with the saved good copy (which obviously only helps if >> it's the same boot.) > > Thanks, looks interesting e1000e hack that might possibly be of some help. > > BUT! please have a look at > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/24/133 > > Looks like this device got a lot of 0xff written somewhere in its config > space, right? But it isn't Intel card at all.
I asked that person and he said reverting to an older kernel made it work again, also there is a fix out as romieu pointed out as well, so this seems to be a different bug for now.
Auke
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