Re: hdsp driver

[Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>]

>At Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:11:16 -0500,
>Paul Davis wrote:
>> 
>> >although the former doesn't allocate the buffer in advance by checking
>> >the pci id, but it will preserve the buffers at alsasound stop or
>> >restart operations just like the latter does.
>> 
>> so when does it allocate them?
>
>when the allocator function (snd_malloc_xxx) is called from the
>driver.  so, it wouldn't work exactly like snd-hammerfall-mem, which
>allocates by itself without call from the sound drivers.
>snd-page-alloc module just "caches" the buffer after the module
>unload/reload.
>
>but i don't think this would make so big difference, since the sound
>drivers are loaded likely in the early stage, anyway.

they aren't. that's the whole problem. on my old system (148MB of
RAM), allowing fsck to run would prevent memory allocation. i don't
know of any distribution that inserts modules that early. do you?


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