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

[Erik Andersen]

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

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