Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751993AbXARLAs (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:00:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751999AbXARLAs (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:00:48 -0500 Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.99.138]:37694 "EHLO codepoet.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751993AbXARLAr (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:00:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:00:28 -0700 From: Erik Andersen To: Andi Kleen Cc: Chris Wedgwood , Christoph Anton Mitterer , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, knweiss@gmx.de, krader@us.ibm.com, lfriedman@nvidia.com, linux-nforce-bugs@nvidia.com Subject: Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?) Message-ID: <20070118110028.GA22407@codepoet.org> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mail-Followup-To: andersen@codepoet.org, Andi Kleen , Chris Wedgwood , Christoph Anton Mitterer , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, knweiss@gmx.de, krader@us.ibm.com, lfriedman@nvidia.com, linux-nforce-bugs@nvidia.com References: <45AD2D00.2040904@scientia.net> <20070116203143.GA4213@tuatara.stupidest.org> <200701170829.54540.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200701170829.54540.ak@suse.de> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 910 Lines: 21 On Wed Jan 17, 2007 at 08:29:53AM +1100, Andi Kleen wrote: > AMD is looking at the issue. Only Nvidia chipsets seem to be affected, > although there were similar problems on VIA in the past too. > Unless a good workaround comes around soon I'll probably default > to iommu=soft on Nvidia. I just tried again and while using iommu=soft does avoid the corruption problem, as with previous kernels with 2.6.20-rc5 using iommu=soft still makes my pcHDTV HD5500 DVB cards not work. I still have to disable memhole and lose 1 GB. :-( -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/