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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 as a documentation issue for the release notes. Here is a proposed description: Some amd64 systems which have nvidia chipsets and more than 3GB of RAM seem to have an issue with 32-bit PCI access that may result in sporadic data corruption when accessing disks. Because this problem was still under investigation by the Linux kernel developers at the time of release, it was not possible to include a fix for this problem in the etch kernel packages. As a workaround, users running etch on such a system are recommended to add 'iommu=soft' to their kernel boot options. See Debian bug #404148 for full details. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
