Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough
despite the best intentions of debian i am convinced that most users will
not read the release notes and over the lifetime of the etch release
having large ammounts (just how much is needed to trigger this bug btw) of
memory will become more and more common.
what does the sarge kernel do when placed on a machine like this? does it
use the hardware iommu? does it use the software one? does it not use one
at all (and hence lose some memory). In other words is the current
situation a regression from sarge?
what is the performance impact of using the safe option on all hardware
even that not affected by this bug? would using that option by default
result in a noticable performance degrdation?
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