Package: src:linux Version: 6.12.107-1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer,
CONTEXT ======= I upgraded this machine from Debian 11 to Debian 12 to Debian 13. While looking into a Wayland freeze on the same machine (Debian bug #1147096) I noticed this error message, which is unrelated as far as I can tell but is new since the upgrade. WHAT I OBSERVE ============== On a GeForce 210 (GT218, Tesla), nouveau logs an error-level message on every boot with the 6.12 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: drm: failed to create ce channel, -22 nouveau 0000:01:00.0: drm: MM: using COPY for buffer copies Booting the same machine on linux-image-6.1.0-52-amd64 does not print it. I have not noticed any misbehaviour I could attribute to it, and the second line suggests buffer copies still work. I am reporting it because it is an error that was not there before, on hardware that is presumably not tested much any more. HARDWARE AND VERSIONS ===================== 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2) Dell Inc. OptiPlex 390/0M5DCD, BIOS A07 05/27/2012 nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GT218 (0a8280b1), bios 70.18.49.00.00, 1024 MiB DDR3 linux-image-6.12.107+deb13-amd64: 6.12.107-1 not present on: linux-image-6.1.0-52-amd64 (6.1.180-1) WHAT THE LOGS CONTAIN ===================== 6.12, every boot: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GT218 (0a8280b1) nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 70.18.49.00.00 nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: 1024 MiB DDR3 nouveau 0000:01:00.0: drm: VRAM: 1024 MiB nouveau 0000:01:00.0: drm: GART: 1048576 MiB nouveau 0000:01:00.0: drm: TMDS table version 2.0 nouveau 0000:01:00.0: drm: failed to create ce channel, -22 nouveau 0000:01:00.0: drm: MM: using COPY for buffer copies [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.4.0 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0 6.1, same machine, same place in the sequence: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0 [...] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for buffer copies i.e. the "using COPY" line is there in both cases; only the error is new. -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.6 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.107+deb13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.107-1 (2026-08-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 -- Versions of relevant packages: linux-image-6.12.107+deb13-amd64 6.12.107-1 libgl1-mesa-dri 25.0.7-2+deb13u1 libglx-mesa0 25.0.7-2+deb13u1 libdrm2 2.4.124-2 gdm3 48.0-2 gnome-shell 48.7-0+deb13u2 xserver-xorg-core 2:21.1.16-1.3+deb13u3 gstreamer1.0-gl 1.26.2-1+deb13u1 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.26.2-1+deb13u1
