Re: 2.6.14 kernel woes

[Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com>]

2.6.14 in Sid won't allow DMA to be turned on for my diskdrives. As 
you can imagine, ext3 with a 5 second commit means that for every 5 
seconds, the machine locks up for a full second to do it's disk 
transfers.

Very nasty.

2.6.12 worked very well indeed. I'm a little bit concerned that the 
Debian kernel maintainers are also "waiting on 2.6.15".

I do want to thank them for including frame buffer support in 
2.6.14-2, which wasn't working in -1 because of the new yippi (or 
whatever) initrd build system.

If 2.6 ever stabilizes, maybe then there will be time to take care of 
details.

I wonder if the "stock" kernels are having the same problems?


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