On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Hans Verkuil wrote:

> The core problem is that the DMA engine on the cx23415/6 is basically
> broken. We no longer do scatter-gather DMA since that created these DMA
> TIMEOUTs in particular, but from mails like yours it seems that on some
> hardware it apparently can still happen.

Well, long-term, I'm switching cable companies and won't have analog cable 
available... I'll probably end up with an HDHomeRun for over-the-air 
digital, and the PVR-500 will go away or be used for just video.

> I can try to take one more look at it if you can upgrade to the latest
> v4l-dvb, run with ivtv-ctl -D0x463 and mail me the 1000 lines in the
> log up to the DMA TIMEOUT.

Running this now. As was reported elsewhere, the logging alone has changed 
the timing enough that the timeout hasn't happened, yet.

Thanks,
-Tree

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