Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM

[Dave Airlie]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> 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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