Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:27:55 +0200 | From | Muli Ben-Yehuda <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] Re: x86_64: 2.6.14-rc4 swiotlb broken |
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:08:24PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 17 October 2005 19:52, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > > > No they are not. IBM X460s are generally available machines and the bug > > affects those boxes. > > No reports from that front so far.
We have such machines with >4GB memory and 32 bit DMA capable SCSI controllers and would like to be able to run 2.6.14 on them when it comes out...
> > How can there be a major kernel release which is known > > to have breakage?? > > Welcome to the painful real world of software engineering. > > Every software has bugs and if you want to ever get a release out you > have to make such decisions sometimes.
Fair enough, but this is a regression for something that used to work. If a painful choice is required, how about reverting the patch that broke it and breaking something that used to be broken?
> As an alternative I can just backout the patch that enables the Intel > SRAT code. That is probably better for a short term fix and will > not regress anybody.
Sounds great!
Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/
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