On Tuesday 24 October 2006 16:34, Kirk Bocek wrote:
> 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?
I don't think so, to be honest. The two versions are diverging more and
more and it's going to be a big job to copy the changes to 0.4.x. I'll
definitely look at it once this reorganization is complete and tested.
Hans
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