Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:29:23PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Well, there's no reason that someone can't use iommu=soft when booting the installer, as well. So perhaps it would be best to clone that bug and include this information in the installation

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:29:04AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: As I've told you in my email before I just tested your patch with the following results (used linux-source-2.6.18 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) from testing, of course on an amd64 system): - The patch applies without problems -

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Steve Langasek wrote: But regardless, there are no plans for another kernel update before etch r0, and including one is likely to delay the release. I'm of the opinion that this bug does not justify a delay at this point. Uhm, sad to hear this... With the consent of the kernel team

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070331 12:59]: On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:29:04AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I would say (although I'm by any means not kernel expert) that your patch looks good and I _strongly_ recommend to include it in etch r0 (!!)... You're the release

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:11:09PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070331 12:59]: On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:29:04AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I would say (although I'm by any means not kernel expert) that your patch looks good and I

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Andreas Barth wrote: BTW, we intended to have frequent kernel uploads to proposed-updates, and frankly speaking, I personally don't mind to already have a newer kernel in proposed-updates during the release, but that's something I want to have signed-off by Martin. The main problem with the

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070331 16:03]: The ideal would have been a framework where we could build new kernels and have it integrated within a few days only. I gave a speach about this at FOSDEM, of how we could use the initramfs incremental nature, to separate fully the kernel

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 08:18:26PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070331 16:03]: The ideal would have been a framework where we could build new kernels and have it integrated within a few days only. I gave a speach about this at FOSDEM, of how we could use

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread dann frazier
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:58:49AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:29:04AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: As I've told you in my email before I just tested your patch with the following results (used linux-source-2.6.18 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) from testing, of

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 07:59:44PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Andreas Barth wrote: BTW, we intended to have frequent kernel uploads to proposed-updates, and frankly speaking, I personally don't mind to already have a newer kernel in proposed-updates during the release, but

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Steve Langasek wrote: Well, there's no reason that someone can't use iommu=soft when booting the installer, as well. So perhaps it would be best to clone that bug and include this information in the installation guide or errata? Yes that's a good idea. I assume it would be also a problem,

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Steve. As I've told you in my email before I just tested your patch with the following results (used linux-source-2.6.18 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) from testing, of course on an amd64 system): - The patch applies without problems - The kernel compiles with it without problems (at least with my

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?!

2007-03-27 Thread Steve Langasek
clone 404148 -1 reassign -1 release-notes tags 404148 etch-ignore tags -1 -patch thanks Since no one was able to test the provided patch, linux-2.6 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 has been uploaded to unstable without it, which means fixing this has missed the last kernel upload for etch r0. That leaves this

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?!

2007-03-12 Thread Steve Langasek
So regrettably, this bug went more or less unnoticed on the 'kernel' pseudopackage until now, and it does appear (based on the upstream discussion) to affect the etch kernels. And in addition to it being noticed after the upload of 2.6.18.dfsg.1-11, there also doesn't seem to be a real upstream

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?!

2007-03-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:25:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So regrettably, this bug went more or less unnoticed on the 'kernel' pseudopackage until now, and it does appear (based on the upstream discussion) to affect the etch kernels. And in addition to it being noticed after the upload

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?!

2006-12-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: kernel Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss Hi everybody. I'm currently (together with others) investigating in a severe data corruption problem that at least many users might suffer from. A short description, when you validate lots of GBs over and over with