Re: [Openvortex-dev] CVS updated.

[Ryan Underwood]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:40:37AM -0400, Manuel Jander wrote:
> 
> Well, and now ? Is it working now "as is" ?

Dunno, I'll give it a look next time I have opportunity to crash my
system ;)

> Specifically, in the ac97_read() function, when its waits for the
> address to be acknowledged, the data was read in a extra read. I guess
> this is wrong, since in that extra read, new and different data could
> have arrived from the codec, invalidating the data that was present when
> the address arrived.

Perhaps.  It seemed like some sort of strange buffering or timing issue
at the time.

> As rule of thumb, if your code needs very dificult tweaking and you just
> can't get it "tuned", the best is to rewrite it, and throw all the shit
> away :)

No argument there, especially if you have the free time to do so...

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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253