Re: [Openvortex-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] au8830+via & alsa 0.9.7c

[Ryan Underwood]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:35:34PM -0400, Manuel Jander wrote:
> He Ryan,
> 
> > > >Well, you just confirmed me that there was really a bug in the old
> > > >binary driver. The old binary driver keeps looping with some locks held
> > > >for a hardware flag that never changes, freezing your computer. Jeff
> > > >Muizelaar added a "lifeboat" to that loop, but very later we noticed
> > > >that this semes to help stability. Now we have the proove :D
> > > 
> > > are there plans to include the pci fix into the driver? i think the 
> > > cs46xx does something similar by detecting if it is run on a thinkpad 
> > > and enabling some workaround if required. it should be pretty 
> > > straightforward. just look if the pci-id of the via northbridge can be 
> > > found on the pci bus and then set the registers according to the test 
> > > result. if you want a patch for that then i could make one at the next 
> > > weekend.
> > 
> > There is a patch on the Sourceforge site for PCI Latency.  It should be
> > trivial to modify it for the VIA fix.  However, I think there are
> > further problems in the binary component of the driver that would
> > require reworking to solve.  You could implement a new function outside
> > the binary driver, and then mess around the symbol in the binary part
> > so the linker doesn't find it also, and get confused.
> 
> Sorry, but what "binary" part of what driver are you talking about ? The
> new Aureal ALSA driver is 100% pure C source code. Thats why it took so
> long to develop it :D  
> The binary shit is over and no longer needed ...

My mistake, I had interpreted the thread to be about the old binary driver.

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