http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=Njc0Nw
From what I can see, it appears the release candidates for 2.6.27 had a very serious bug that would corrupt the firmware on the ethernet driver. This will only affect you if you used those release candidates, which isn't to many folks I would imagine, however there are specific betas of distributions that will be affected. This is of course why betas and RCs exist, to catch these before they become wide spread so the process works, but to be certain, if you have an affected chip do not use these betas and RCs.
Seablade
From what I can see, it appears the release candidates for 2.6.27 had a very serious bug that would corrupt the firmware on the ethernet driver. This will only affect you if you used those release candidates, which isn't to many folks I would imagine, however there are specific betas of distributions that will be affected. This is of course why betas and RCs exist, to catch these before they become wide spread so the process works, but to be certain, if you have an affected chip do not use these betas and RCs.
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| A list of possible affected devicesbased off what that module supports, taken from hardware4linux.info: 1. Intel / 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (4.4 x 14) 2. Intel / 82801I (ICH9 Family) Gigabit Ethernet Controller [Ethernet controller] (3.0 x 5) 3. Intel / 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (4.3 x 3) 4. Dell (by Intel) / 82801I (ICH9 Family) Gigabit Ethernet Controller [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 2) 5. Hewlett-Packard (by Intel) / 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 1) 6. Super Micro Computer (by Intel) / 80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 3) 7. Dell (by Intel) / 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (4.0 x 2) 8. Foxconn International (by Intel) / 82566DM Gigabit Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 1) 9. Lenovo (by Intel) / Lenovo Thinkpad T61 [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 10) 10. Hewlett-Packard (by Intel) / 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 2) 11. Toshiba America Info Systems (by Intel) / 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 5) 12. Acer [ALI] (by Intel) / 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 1) |
