On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 08:06:03PM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, > > turns out there was an issue with Linux 3.6.4 on some AMD systems with > more than 4GB of RAM. 3.6.5 fixed this bug. Unfortunately this was a > little too late for the recent ISO image. > > I was wondering what was the best way to handle issues like this. One > of the benefits of monthly releases is that we have more than one image > available which is recent enough to install your system. Instead of > aiming for the perfect, bug free system I would prefer to update the > download page with a "known issues" section and a link to the last two > previous install images. I think it might be saner to solve the problem > this way; for example 3.6.5 might fix this issue but as the changelog is > quite long its possible new bugs were introduced at the same time. > > In this particular case a simple workaround exists by adding "mem=3G" > to your boot parameters. > > PS: Maybe it's worth to post a dedicated news item about this issue; I > assume while not a lot of people seem to be affected most probably got > hit it via regular system updates. > > What do you think about this? In general and for this particular > problem. > > Greetings, > > Pierre > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
Given that: - it doesn't affect everyone - there's an easy enough workaround - there's always last month's ISO - there's always next month's ISO I vote for a news post for the front page, and we just roll with it. d
