Hi all,

I would appreciate it if people could start testing the latest ivtv on 
the 0.10 branch, available here:

http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/ivtv/branches/0.10.tar.gz?view=tar

The current driver has a problem with copying data from the MPEG card to 
memory that are done using PIO instead of DMA (for good reasons). 
Unfortunately PIO accesses are slow, so too much time is spent inside 
the interrupt handler. This can lead to missing clock ticks and 
problems with remotes (key hits that are missed).

The patch I've committed moves these PIO copies to a separate handler 
outside the interrupt handler, so this should solve these problems.

However, I did not have much time to test it thoroughly, so I'd very 
much appreciate it if people could start testing this and report 
whether or not any new problems were introduced.

This patch is also queued for the 2.6.22 kernel, by the way.

If this change solves the problems that I've mentioned above, then I'll 
make a new 0.10.3 release in two weeks time.

Thanks,

        Hans

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