Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 07:31, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:52:32PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > I agree,... it seems drastic, but this is the only really secure
> > solution.
>
> I'd like to here from Andi how he feels about this?  It seems like a
> somewhat drastic solution in some ways given a lot of hardware doesn't
> seem to be affected (or maybe in those cases it's just really hard to
> hit, I don't know).

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.

-Andi
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