Hans Verkuil wrote: > Regarding DMA problems: this is partially solved. Part of the problem is > simply broken hardware and there isn't much I can do about it. I do > have some code that is supposed to reset the DMA engine when it gets > stuck, but I haven't tried that yet. The other part is that the use of > user-threads for DMA can be too slow, causing (probably) DMA queueing > issues in the firmware of the card followed by DMA engine hangs. That > part should be fixed with this beta version. In particular this means > that it is likely that the PVR500 will now work without any DMA hangs. > (The PCI bridge on the PVR500 seems to work around the hardware > problems of the DMA engine)
Hans, do you have any plans to backport these fixes to those of us who need to run 0.4.7 on an older kernel? Thanks, Kirk Bocek _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
