Re: [Intel-wired-lan] Linux 5.15-rc1 - 82599ES VPD access isue

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 07:51:22AM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>
> > > Sorry to reply from my personal account. If I did it from my work
> > > account I'd be top-posting because of Outlook and that goes over like a
> > > lead balloon.
> > >
> > > Anyway, can you send us a dump of your eeprom using ethtool -e? You can
> > > either send it via a bug on e1000.sourceforge.net or try sending it to
> > > todd.fujinaka@xxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > The other thing is I'm wondering is what the subvendor device ID you
> > > have is referring to because it's not in the pci database. Some ODMs
> > > like getting creative with what they put in the NVM.
> > >
> > > Todd Fujinaka (todd.fujinaka@xxxxxxxxx)
> >
> > Thanks for the prompt reply. Dave, could you please provide the requested
> > information?
>
> sent off-list.
>
> 	Dave

Whoops. I replied from outlook again.

I have confirmation that this should be a valid image. The VPD is just a
series of 3's. There are changes to preboot header, flash and BAR size,
and as far as I can tell, a nonsense subdevice ID, but this should work.

What was the original question?

Todd Fujinaka <todd.fujinaka@xxxxxxxxx>