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> Datum: Wed, 14 May 2008 14:26:53 +0200
> Von: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: "Gerhard Pircher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
> linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: ALSA fixes for non-coherent archs (Re: [PATCH] Sam440ep support)

> At Tue, 06 May 2008 11:16:22 +0200,
> Gerhard Pircher wrote:
> > 
> > Naturally I can do some tests, if you or Takashi come up with a new
> > patch.
> 
> OK, here is another patch for testing.  Since I lost my old patch
> somewhere (and it's not worth to dig the archive), I wrote it up
> quickly from scratch.  This version should cover both SG and non-SG
> buffers.  It's against the latest git tree.
> 
> The patch adds a hackish verison of dma_mmap_coherent() for some
> architectures in sound/core/pcm_native.c.  I'm not sure whether this
> works.  I just tested it on X86.  It'd be appreciated if someone can
> test this.
> 
> Also, this disables HDSPM driver for non-X86/IA64 since the driver has
> own copy and silence methods that are incompatible with the new
> SG-buffer data.
> 
> 
> And, yes, I know we need to clean up huge messes in ALSA memory
> handling routines.  But, let's fix obvious bugs before starting a big
> rewrite...
Okay, it seems to work fine so far. No lock-ups or kernel oopses. Tested
with kernel v2.6.26-rc2 and a Soundblaster 5.1/EMU10k1 device (which was
not working with the old patch) on my non cache coherent G4 system.

Thanks again!

Gerhard

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