Re: [Alsa-devel] Scatter Gather DMA

2003-03-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:09:21 -0400, mjander wrote: > > Hi, > > Another question... :) > > The Aureal Vortex has Scatter Gather DMA's for each audio channel. > But these SG DMA > support only max 4 pages. Each page can have a programable size of > upto 4 KB. > I was studying the ALSA SG scheme an

Re: [Alsa-devel] Scatter Gather DMA

2003-03-05 Thread tomasz motylewski
> I don't see a problem here. The PAGE_SIZE is 4kB for i386. Simply > follow the code in the via82xx driver and limit the maximum count of > periods to 4. This is easy solution, but a bit limiting. For example cs4281 supports max 2 periods. It is rather hard to work with it. There is a patch for

Re: [Alsa-devel] Scatter Gather DMA

2003-03-05 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, mjander wrote: > Hi, > > Another question... :) > > The Aureal Vortex has Scatter Gather DMA's for each audio channel. > But these SG DMA > support only max 4 pages. Each page can have a programable size of > upto 4 KB. > I was studying the ALSA SG scheme and it doesnt seme t

[Alsa-devel] Scatter Gather DMA

2003-03-05 Thread mjander
Hi, Another question... :) The Aureal Vortex has Scatter Gather DMA's for each audio channel. But these SG DMA support only max 4 pages. Each page can have a programable size of upto 4 KB. I was studying the ALSA SG scheme and it doesnt seme to fit into the aureal vortex SG buffer scheme, because