Bug#595502: linux-image-2.6.32-5-mckinley: panics while loading INIT, IOMMU out of mapping resources
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> Since there are many known security flaws in -9, you should only do this if
> you have a properly configured local firewall and are prepared to treat all
> local users as having root access.
Not a concern: no local users (besides me) and the only network access
exposed to the world is port 80... ;P
> Alternately you could use the Debian kernel source and build a kernel
> configured to use the old IDE driver for this hardware.
If I'm gonna build a kernel from source, it'll be a stock kernel. I
wouldn't be half surprised if they didn't expose that bug, too...
> On the third hand, I suspect that replacing this machine with a PC will
> quickly pay for itself in power savings.
Agreed, it's something I'll keep in mind for when I'll have to pay for
that machine's power ;)
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Thibaut VARENE
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/
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