From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stuart Brady Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] [PATCH] Harmony driver - Reject AFMT_S16_LE & Implement SNDCTL_DSP_CHANNELS Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 00:42:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20040523234200.GA1893@calypso> References: <20040222092057.GA2590@calypso> <20040223035601.GA988@calypso> <20040511052451.GC27478@colo.lackof.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org To: Grant Grundler Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <20040511052451.GC27478@colo.lackof.org> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: parisc-linux-bounces@lists.parisc-linux.org Hi Grant, > Sorry for taking so long with this...I was expecting someone else > to reply and maybe missed it. A couple of minor problems with > your patch: Actually, I think I should have been more persistent. > 1) it's for 2.4 and I'm personally trying to focus on 2.6 tree now. > 2.6 is ready for prime time. It's been my desktop/ftp/http server > (C3600) for the past couple of monthes and has proven very stable. > > 2) OSS is "decprecated" according to the 2.6 sound/Kconfig "Help". > Ie use ALSA instead. See SOUND_PRIME option. > > 3) if no one else wants to poke at the 2.4 harmony driver, I will > just apply your patches on good faith that it builds/works for you. > Have you tweaked it more since Feb? I've made some improvements to the mixer code, but OSS's mixer interface seems to be inadequate. I can post a patch that improves the mixer code slightly. Other than that, I haven't changed anything. Under high load, I tend to get panics when using the Harmony driver. I've no idea why this is, and I wish I could understand the low-level code a bit better. This has nothing to do with my patches, though. (I.e. it crashes with them and it crashes without them.) http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2004-February/022432.html is probably more of an issue for lkml. (There's a slight mistake in that patch - I forgot the closing */ on line 42.) > In 2.6, ALSA harmony driver does NOT compile and that's disappointing. I would love to try and help with the 2.6 drivers instead. Unfortunatlely, I can't get 2.6 to boot. This is all that I see: Command line for kernel: 'root=/dev/sda6 HOME=/ console=tty0 sti=1 sti_font=VGA8x16 TERM=linux palo_kernel=2/vmlinux-2.6' Selected kernel: /vmlinux-2.6 from partition 2 ELF32 executable Entry 001001c0 first 00100000 n 3 Segment 0 load 00100000 size 2520296 mediaptr 0x1000 Segment 1 load 00368000 size 565504 mediaptr 0x269000 Segment 2 load 003f4000 size 581766 mediaptr 0x2f4000 Branching to kernel entry point 0x001001c0. If this is the last message you see, you may need to switch your console. This is a common symptom -- search the FAQ and mailing list at parisc-linux.org I have another graphics card in this machine, so I'm wondering whether that has anything to do with this. FWIW, it's a 715/100. I'm using the prebuilt palinux-32-2.6.6-pa4_0-2_all.deb package from http://cvs.parisc-linux.org/download/linux-2.6/ Thanks, -- Stuart Brady _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux