linux-kernel - Re: 'vintage' via dma bug

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:02:20 +0200
From:	"febo@...enda.net" <febo@...enda.net>
To:	"Dave Jones" <davej@...hat.com>, febo@...enda.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'vintage' via dma bug

On 7/18/06, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
>
>
> I'm puzzled why you upgraded from one end-of-life'd distro to
> another ancient end-of-life'd distro.   You're more likely to get
> interest from the upstream developers if you're running
> something recent.  Even _I_ don't remember what was good/bad
> in the Fedora kernels from that era, and I built them :-)

 Quite simply, the damn thing is 350 km away from where I am, and I
can't just shut it down completely to reinstall or better yet swap it
with some decent and newer hardware. So I found that FC1 could be
upgraded with a 2.6 fedora RPM and found the 'nearest' at fedora
legacy and upgrade the kernel in 5 minutes.
Essentialy I'd like to find some confirmation/pointer regarding 1) if
the bug really affects my chipset 2) if 2.6.10 still has the fix, it
should have it of course, but...
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