Joerg Eilers writes: > Please forgive me when I post this question a second time, but I think > I read you were on vacation (hope you enjoyed it) and I didn't address > this question to you. > > I installed a second DVB-s card, which I bought as an DATA-only card and > added the missing RAM as explained some time ago here by Thomas Mungai > (http://linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2001/05-2001/msg00657.html) . > > But I was not very successfull in using it, because when I tried it (with > VDR) I got once some seconds recorded (but never again :-(( ), > before I got an "ARM crashed" message. I get this messages very often > when vdr tries to tune a channel. > > I would like to see, if I can test the result of my soldering. > So here's my question: Is there any chance to do some deeper testing of > the card hardware? > I would especcially like some code to test the ARMs SDRAM memory (e.g. > writing a bit pattern and read it back from the SDRAM). > > Is there any chance? I hope, this are just some few lines of code I can > insert (or maybe its allready there with an DEBUG=test_arms_memory ? ;-)) > and no hard or impossible stuff to do.
You would have to write a test routine which runs on the ARM core (in the firmware) to do this. The Linux driver has no direct access to the SDRAM of the card. Ralph -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
