On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 09:52:51PM -0500, Z G wrote: > Following up on Jeremy's question above, does Debian 8.3.0 (image as of > early 2016) include a fix? > > Alternatively, could someone (Matteo?) indicate the steps to fix this > during the install process? Not sure if you're patching the installer code > and recompiling during the install process or something else.
I tried with the stretch installer in late December, and that worked on NVMe (which is good since this was a few weeks after it was supposed to have been fixed). I tested on a Samsung 950 Pro 256GB M.2 on an Asus Z170-A. It did not occur to me to test the jessie installer since I simply assumed it didn't do NVMe. Also I was under the impression that there are issues with the graphics in the skylake CPUs that needed a 4.3+ kernel, which ruled out Jessie for that machine. According to http://www.poweredbyjeff.com/2015/10/29/Intel-750-SSD-in-Debian-Jessie/ it needs a backported grub and kernel to work properly in Jessie. Not sure. It does have steps that is says works. Of course if the kernel has some issues with NVMe, then I suspect getting jessie fixed isn't that likely, but at least backports for the kernel is still an option then. -- Len Sorensen
