[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 2/3] e1000e: ignore status during auto-negotiation

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Jan-Marek,


On 01/08/19 10:59, Jan-Marek Glogowski wrote:

> Am 08.01.19 um 09:31 schrieb Neftin, Sasha:
>> On 1/7/2019 18:37, Jan-Marek Glogowski wrote:

[…]

>> Since you still read 0x40000000 value in the status register it is causing me to think that ME
>> works. Another way I think you should to go ask your vendors for last updated NVM (or with ME
>> disabled if possible) for your HW. Since I219V works as properly, I expected I219-LM without ME
>> works too.
> 
> From the logs I sent:
> 
> I217-LM: "status 0x40080083 => 1000 Mbps, Full Duplex"
> I219-V: "status 0x40080083 => 1000 Mbps, Full Duplex"
> I219-LM auto-nego ok: "status 0x80083 => 1000 Mbps, Full Duplex"
> I219-LM auto-nego broken: "status 0x40080003 => 10 Mbps, Full Duplex"
> 
> According to the BIOS both LM-variants have Intel ME disabled. If I can't trust the BIOS, is there a
> way to check this?

What does intelmetool from the coreboot project show?

    $ git clone https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git
    $ cd coreboot
    $ cd util/intelmetoolo
    $ make -j
    $ sudo ./intelmetool -m


Kind regards,

Paul

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