PROBLEM: memory corrupting bug, bisected to 6dda9d55

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 13:10 -0500, pacman at kosh.dhis.org wrote:
> 
> So what type of driver, firmware, or hardware bug puts a 16-bit 1000Hz
> timer
> in memory, and does it in little-endian instead of the CPU's native
> byte
> order? And why does it stop doing it some time during the early init
> scripts,
> shortly after the root filesystem fsck?
> 
> I have not yet attempted to repeat the experiment. If it is
> repeatable, I'll
> probe more deeply into those init scripts later. I'm looking hard at
> /etc/rcS.d/S11hwclock.sh 

Stinks of USB...

Ben.