From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Kostas Gewrgiou , linuxppc-dev Subject: Re: Sound stoppage: TRIAL code to re-start DEAD dma Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:10:49 +0200 Message-Id: <20010328121049.10701@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >Nope it doesn't restart the frame, thats why we need to either reload it >and return or continue as if it played correctly. > >I was wondering again today why we get the DEAD status in the powercomputing >machines everything was working fine until 2.2.9/10 (there were no changes >in dmasound at that point) so some other change is causing this i can't >imagine anything though :( Can this be the time when we added proper support for IDE M/DMA mode ? Previously, our driver could do DMA, but couldn't configure the disk DMA mode, leaving it in whatever state the firmware/MacOS set it up. Around 2.2.x (early, I don't remember when exactly), we added some code to configure the timings properly. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/