From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FQSRs-00031k-EP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:02:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k33H2QTO024751; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:02:26 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k33Gxa7j001673 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:59:36 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FQSOu-0003LX-1m for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:59:36 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FQSOs-0005JW-51 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:59:34 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:59:34 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:59:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2.6.16 and packages in conflict Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:59:06 -0700 Organization: Organization? Me? Message-ID: References: <441EDE76.8070305@gentoo.org> <44312B63.1090009@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 1eaf9191-ed4e-492e-a7f0-537d436a9b5e X-Archives-Hash: a71dd9cb0b87e48c9f604e89db7c53fb Daniel Drake posted <44312B63.1090009@gentoo.org>, excerpted below, on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:04:19 +0100: >> Linux 2.6.16 will be in the tree very soon. Assuming there aren't any >> major problems, we'll hopefully be marking it stable in 2-3 weeks. > > We're planning to mark it stable on 10th April. Maybe a few days later, > need to double check that we don't have any in-kernel 2.6.16 showstoppers. This isn't a show-stopper, but it's possible you'll get others running into the issue that understand as little as I did about it... Maybe this will save folks the hair tearing frustration I went thru tracing it. AMD64 > 4G memory: SCSI formerly (2.6.15 and earlier) used bounce-buffers. It now relies on the IOMMU, either the hardware GART IOMMU for true AMD64, or a software emulation thereof for Intel's EM64T. It'll need to be configured into the kernel and working. Also, here, I had a BIOS issue. AGP Hypertransport Fast-writes had to be disabled in ordered for the IOMMU (and DRI/DRM) to function. Because the kernel froze every time I tried IOMMU, I had the kernel configured without it, so I had /two/ changes to trace down and make, before it would work, thus the problem, since either one alone wasn't enough. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list