Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?!

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Mon Dec 11, 2006 at 10:24:02AM +0100, Karsten Weiss wrote:
> We could not reproduce the data corruption anymore if we boot
> the machines with the kernel parameter "iommu=soft" i.e. if we
> use software bounce buffering instead of the hw-iommu.

I just realized that booting with "iommu=soft" makes my pcHDTV
HD5500 DVB cards not work.  Time to go back to disabling the
memhole and losing 1 GB.  :-(

 -Erik

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