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Bug#814855: Will it be fixed later ?

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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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Bug#814855: Will it be fixed later ? Gael Le Mignot <kilobug@freesurf.fr> - 2016-02-21 11:00 +0100
  Bug#814855: Will it be fixed later ? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-02-21 20:50 +0100

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