On Sun, 2016-02-21 at 10:49 +0100, Gael Le Mignot wrote: > Hello, > > This sounds like a pretty serious bug to me - making a whole serie of > hardware unusuable in Sid. Only AC'97 sound chips have become unsupported, and only on amd64. I don't believe this is a common combination as those chips were discontinued before 64-bit x86 CPUs became common. > I have a SB Live! card too, and don't plan to change it anytime soon. I had one of those once, back when on-board sound chips were rubbish. They got better. > Will that be fixed in a later (like 4.5) kernel version ? I really hope > Stretch won't be released with such a regression. Apparently there is some work under way to allow both ZONE_DEVICE (needed for DAX) and ZONE_DMA (needed by the sound drivers) to be supported in the same kernel configuration. > And using an older kernel is not really an option, I plan to buy a > graphic card requiring AMDGPU driver soon, so there will no option to > have both my GPU and my soundcard working on Debian ? Not with an amd64 kernel. Ben. > I don't really know the details about NVDIMM_PFN and what it implies, > but this current situation seems problematic and I hope a solution can > be found. > > Regards, > -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
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