Re: RFC: MPC5200 PSC AC97 driver

[Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>]

Matt,

On Saturday 19 April 2008 14:02, Matt Sealey wrote:
> Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> wro=
te:
> >>  Juergen Beisert wrote:
> >
> > BTW, is anyone trying to shepherd this driver into the ALSA tree?  Its
> > out of my area of expertise and responsibility, so I haven't been
> > pursuing it.
>
> We (well, I) were going to try but we got some oopses; from one thing or
> another, but with Juergen's fixes and cell-index in place, now it plays
> audio.
>
> Now it can be pushed to ALSA on that basis, but I'm still trying to get my
> head around where we need to throw patches and if it goes into ALSA Drive=
rs
> first or the kernel or both? It's kind of convoluted compared to the ease
> of just CC'ing netdev or linux-ide..

Please don't forget what Sylvian said about this driver: "I also completely=
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skipped the 5200 (not B) support ..." and your own "I think it should be le=
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noted here that the CCR size changed from 16 bits to 32 bits from 5200 to=20
5200B in order to reduce confusion.". Its not solved yet. So any user of an=
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old MPC5200 will be surprised...

Juergen

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