[PATCH] - trident cyberblade FIFO status check
Alex Deucher
alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sun May 22 09:35:53 PDT 2005
On 5/22/05, Laurence Darby <ldarby at sdf-eu.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 15 May 2005, Laurence Darby wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was getting the audio problems described here:
> > www.alsa-project.org/misc/vgakills.txt
> >
> > It's caused by writing to a FIFO without checking if it's full or not, and
> > if it is full, the PCI bus locks up for long enough to damage the audio
> > stream to the sound card. I've fixed it for the trident cyberblade chip.
>
> Hi again,
>
> I take it that my kludge to blade_accel.c wasn't very acceptable, but
> still would really like to see this implemented, because for me it's fixed
> a major problem. Is there a better way so it is acceptable, like making
> it configurable with an option? It was my first ever patch, so I'm sure
> there's lots of space for improvement....
>
> Thanks,
> Laurence
>
Probably no one has gotten a chance to look at it yet. Post your
patch as an attachment to a bug on https://bugs.freedesktop.org
Then we can track it and review it.
Alex
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