Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.27 e1000e EEPROM corruption

2008-09-01 Thread Chris Jones
Hi Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > Thanks for the detailed timeline, I will try to be looking into this or > coordinating my team looking into this next Tuesday. With some further thinking about that, it's worth mentioning that the Intel graphics driver bug caused some X lockups, which to begin with I

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.27 e1000e EEPROM corruption

2008-08-29 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
Chris Jones wrote: > Hi > > Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: >> Yes, not all bioses will upgrade the NVM for the lan. Chances are >> good that if the file size is larger it will upgrade more of the NVM, >> hopefully upgrading the LAN NVM as well (check the release notes) > > None of the release notes fo

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.27 e1000e EEPROM corruption

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Jones
Hi Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > Yes, not all bioses will upgrade the NVM for the lan. Chances are good > that if the file size is larger it will upgrade more of the NVM, > hopefully upgrading the LAN NVM as well (check the release notes) None of the release notes for it mention the network chip sp

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.27 e1000e EEPROM corruption

2008-08-29 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
Chris Jones wrote: > Hi > > Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: >> yeah, running ibautil appears to pretty well kill many part's NVM. > > Ah, damn. upon some follow up questions it appears that ibautil should only ever be run on Intel branded PCI/PCI-X/PCIe adapters that plug into a slot. It may have a bug

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.27 e1000e EEPROM corruption

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Jones
Hi Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > yeah, running ibautil appears to pretty well kill many part's NVM. Ah, damn. > I've been working a similar thread on the e1000-devel mailing list. The > good news is that the LAN parts eeprom is part of the NVM/Flash on the > motherboard, so it is at least possible