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

On Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:24 am Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
Extra datapoint. As far as I've seen this problem has not yet been
reported by any people running Debian. This could point to X.Org as
Debian currently has 7.3 while I think the reports so far have been with
7.4.

Yes, I think that xorg/xorg i915 driver/libdrm/GEM/whatever are the
biggest suspect currently, according to the data that has been gathered so
far.

We have confirmation that this isn't GEM related; according to the Novell bug
at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425480 people have hit the
problem with kernels w/o GEM.

That doesn't rule out i915 (though I don't think any changes have gone in
since 2.6.26 that would have caused this) or xf86-video-intel. It's possible
that X is getting confused about BAR mappings somehow, resulting in a
clobbered e1000e NVRAM, but why would the kernel version matter in that case?
The only thing that comes to mind would be PAT...

Recent versions of the X drivers (using recent libpciaccess code) will try to
map the resourceN_wc file in sysfs. It's possible that the map size we end
up using is wrong, leading to the situation Dave described earlier where we
map too much MMIO space.

Still, what confuses me a little bit -- the EEPROM of the card is set to
all 0xff, once the corruption happens. Isn't that a quite a coincidence,
that bytes representing "nothing" in this context are used?

Presumably one has to write all ones to the EEPROM BAR of the e1000 device to
see that pattern? Or is there some way of configuring the EEPROM such that
it'll fail to respond to read cycles resulting in all ones for every read
back (i.e. target abort)?

Jesse
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