Re: [discuss] Re: x86_64: 2.6.14-rc4 swiotlb broken

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.

> 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. 

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.

-Andi