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

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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.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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