2.6.11 e1000 EEH MMIO failure

Sonny Rao sonny at burdell.org
Wed May 4 10:29:03 EST 2005


On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:46:32PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> 
> Recent e1000 code has some new kind of whiz-bang watchdog timer
> code that is causing the device to DMA off into hyperspace,
> thus triggering the EEH code.  It's not clear to me if the
> 2.6.11 kernel has this code.
> 
> Am cc'ing two people who should know....
> 
> --linas
> 

Well that machine has other e1000 cards in it that aren't doing this,
so I'm thinking it really is bad hardware in my case.  If you want
this card for testing EEH code or something, I just found it and
ripped it out earlier today, and you can have it :-)

Sonny




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