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Re: piix module in 2.4.27 doesn't work



On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:36:11PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:36:11 +0100
> From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
> Subject: Re: piix module in 2.4.27 doesn't work
> 
> * Frédéric BOITEUX <fboiteux@calistel.com> [2004-08-26 11:34]:
> > Yes, it's a known bug, see #266510 and #266538. It seems to impact
> > all IDE drivers (all I tested at least !) The bug remains in last
> > 2.4.27-4 source package...
> 
> Eww, that's pretty serious.  No IDE DMA means everything is dog
> slow... I've no idea if this is a kernel bug or something in
> initrd-tools... however, if we cannot find out, we should go with
> 2.4.26 for sarge... (hah, getting annoyed about all the .26 vs .27
> yet?  ;-).
 
  Is "kernel file offset pointer race" fixed in debian's kernel source?
Without that it isn't good? I've tried that expoit, it retrieved all
kmem dump and there were such things like clear text passwords from ssh
session and shadow file :)



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