Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-31 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:15:31AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: In the meantime, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't patch the kernel to disable hw iommu on nvidia systems only. I believe the attached patch should do this. Are you in a position to confirm that this does disable hw iommu

Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-31 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Bastian, On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 04:05:33PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:15:31AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: In the meantime, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't patch the kernel to disable hw iommu on nvidia systems only. I believe the attached patch

Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
tags 404148 patch thanks On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:24:30AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: First of all,.. there is still no other solution than iommu=soft (at least as of my knowledge) and we had even someone on the bugreport at bugzilla.kernel.org who claimed that _only_ iommu=soft

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Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Steve Langasek wrote: In all doing respect, I think that it's a much greater risk to not use iommu=soft per default than doing so. Even if we imagine that there would by systems that don't work with the sw-iommu it's likely that they simply break (at boot time). And then the affected user

Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-13 Thread Peter Green
despite the best intentions of debian i am convinced that most users will not read the release notes and over the lifetime of the etch release having large ammounts (just how much is needed to trigger this bug btw) of memory will become more and more common. what does the sarge kernel do when

Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:01:03PM +, Peter Green wrote: despite the best intentions of debian i am convinced that most users will not read the release notes and over the lifetime of the etch release having large ammounts (just how much is needed to trigger this bug btw) of memory will

Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Sorry that I've ignored the last answers to the bug but I somehow missed the mail. First of all,.. there is still no other solution than iommu=soft (at least as of my knowledge) and we had even someone on the bugreport at bugzilla.kernel.org who claimed that _only_ iommu=soft helped, but not