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I'm apparently in too much of a hurry, including netdev... On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Brandeburg, Jesse <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> wrote: > A quick summary of the issue, if you think you have more data, please > reply. If you have had this issue, please reply with results of "cat > /proc/iomem" and "lspci". It will help us correlate data. > > Problem: some users report that with many of the latest beta distros, > during a reboot when e1000e loads it says "NVM checksum is not valid" and > the driver fails to load. > > Result: At this point it appears that most users can load the e1000e > driver if they skip the nvm validation error exit. LAN traffic may or may > not work at this point. Some users report they can dump their eeprom > using ethtool -e and see some varying data, most report the eeprom read > returns all ff ff ff > > NOTE: if you have not had this problem, but wish to continue using e1000e > I strongly suggest you do a "ethtool -e eth0 > savemyeep.txt" > > Many of the reports seem to be related in time to a graphics crash, no one > has been able to give us more detail about how to reproduce. We NEED HELP > reproducing this. Steps, hints, anything. We are trying rebooting, > suspending, opensuse, fedora, ubuntu, and several hardware platforms, etc. > > This seems to effect both 32 and 64 bit kernels, but we haven't heard much > either way. > > hardware affected: > laptops and desktops with 82566 or 82567 based LAN parts, which are > machines with the ICH8 and ICH9 chipsets and a variety of processors. > The machines I know of that have reported the issue include > Lenovo X300 > HP 2510p > Intel DP35JO > Lenovo T61 (possibly) > Lenovo X61 (possibly) > > Next steps: > We are still trying to reproduce the issue locally, we should have a > machine here tomorrow that reportedly had the issue with ubuntu. > > We have a series of kernel patches that I will reply to this mail with > that may help users willing to test. > > We should have ready (hopefully tomorrow) an app that should be able to > restore eeproms as long as the driver can still load. > > We also have a band-aid patch that should allow "locking" of the NVM area > to prevent an errant write, we are looking to post that tomorrow. This > should prevent the damage but not really find the culprit. > > Jesse > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > | ||||||||||
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