On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Holger Eitzenberger wrote:

> 
> > >  e1000e: write protect ICHx NVM to prevent malicious write/erase
> > 
> > no, doesn't apply to this hardware, as it is not ICH (integrated LOM) it 
> > is a standalone 82571 with an actual discreet eeprom chip per port.
> > 
> > > to include our modules as well in order to find out who is overwriting
> > > memory?
> > 
> > it is highly unlikely something is succeeding in writing to the eeprom, 
> > however, we do know of some locking issues in the driver that we've been 
> > resolving specifically for 82571 and that might somehow be related.
> 
> Do you refer to these two here, or something different?
> 
>   e1000e: do not ever sleep in interrupt context
>   e1000e: reset swflag after resetting hardware
> 

there is a different patch, under internal test currently, we hope to 
release it soon in a new e1000e driver patch to the kernel once it has 
completed testing.

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