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From: Brandeburg, Jesse <jesse.brandeburg@...>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, <jesse.brandeburg@...>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8
Date: Monday, September 29, 2008 - 11:42 pm

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:


The hardware has a lock bit, and we're trying to figure out why the BIOS

writers guide doesn't say to set it.  Probably because of the MAC address,

but who knows.


> I'm hoping Intel doesn't treat this as just a software bug. Some hw


We will post a patch to e1000e tomorrow that sets a lock bit that prevents

the registers memory mapped by 0:19.0 BAR1 from causing flash write

cycles.


The patches I've just posted don't quite do that yet.

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Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Sep 29, 6:39 pm)
Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], J.A. , (Tue Sep 30, 3:43 am)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], Ingo Molnar, (Tue Sep 30, 3:55 am)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Sep 30, 2:47 pm)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], Yinghai Lu, (Tue Sep 30, 3:30 pm)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Sep 30, 3:59 pm)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], Yinghai Lu, (Tue Sep 30, 5:35 pm)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Sep 30, 5:37 pm)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], Yinghai Lu, (Tue Sep 30, 5:42 pm)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Sep 30, 6:02 pm)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], J.A. , (Tue Sep 30, 4:02 am)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], Ingo Molnar, (Tue Sep 30, 4:05 am)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], Domenico Andreoli, (Wed Oct 1, 5:33 pm)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], Willy Tarreau, (Thu Oct 2, 1:27 am)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], Ingo Molnar, (Thu Oct 2, 5:26 am)
Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8], Domenico Andreoli, (Thu Oct 2, 5:45 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Jiri Kosina, (Mon Sep 29, 7:33 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Sep 29, 9:56 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Jiri Kosina, (Tue Sep 30, 3:06 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue Sep 30, 10:09 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Jiri Kosina, (Tue Sep 30, 10:11 am)
RE: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Allan, Bruce W, (Tue Sep 30, 11:48 am)
RE: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Jiri Kosina, (Wed Oct 1, 11:37 am)
RE: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Brandeburg, Jesse, (Mon Sep 29, 10:30 pm)
RE: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue Sep 30, 6:07 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Dave Airlie, (Mon Sep 29, 9:59 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Sep 29, 10:21 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Jiri Kosina, (Tue Sep 30, 3:11 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Eric Piel, (Tue Sep 30, 3:58 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino..., (Tue Sep 30, 12:28 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski..., (Tue Sep 30, 2:27 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Sep 29, 11:19 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Dave Airlie, (Mon Sep 29, 10:39 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Sep 29, 10:06 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Sep 29, 10:23 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Alan Cox, (Tue Sep 30, 8:05 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Brandeburg, Jesse, (Mon Sep 29, 11:42 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Sep 29, 10:24 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, Alan Cox, (Tue Sep 30, 8:06 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8, , (Mon Sep 29, 7:09 pm)