Re: [Openvortex-dev] Status of Manuel's patches and openvortex development status

[Alexey Morozov]

Manuel Jander пишет:

> <>Hi,
>
> Most probably not. It looks like that the ALSA people accept some
> patches, replying "OK", but in the end the never make it into the CVS.
> Happened to me sometimes, could be the case here.

I have re-applied addition of vortex_adbdma_resetup for 1.0.6a. "Works 
for me". The rest seems to be in ALSA upstream.

> > vortex_adbdma_resetup from au88x0_core.c and its invocation in 
> > snd_vortex_pcm_trigger from au88x0_pcm.c and declaration in au88x0.h 
> > seem to be missing in the 1.0.6a.
> >    
>
> This one, contributed by someone here on the list (cant remember right
> now). Its related to PCM streams being paused ans resumed. While pausing
> the DMA context seems to get lost, so this extra call reestablishes the
> DMA context.
>  
Ok. Is it related to "irq fifo bug" on [some] VIA chipsets? If it is, 
this is my case ;-)

BTW, it seems installation of 1.0.6a fixed my previous strange equalizer 
channel mapping (message-id <address@hidden>, 
reported earlier in this list).

> > Also it's unclear for me if keeping vortex "QUAD" status in a member 
> > variable "isquad", which initialized at startup (as it's done in 
> > aureal-quadfix.patch), is more preferrable than runtime calculation in 
> > VORTEX_IS_QUAD macro (upstream variant).
> >    
>
> There where some segfault problems, because at some time the ac97 struct
> could be null and the macro being used. Using a variable that is
> initialized at startup when the ac97 struct is not null for sure, solved
> the problem.
>  
Hmm, so this means, I should re-apply this patch if I want to get 
reliable behaviour

>  
>
> > And what about other patches published in this list?
> >    
>
> All current patches on my website should be considered obsolete... while
> there could be some things that where silently omitted by the ALSA
> team :(
>  
Well, so far I applied two aureal patches mentioned above and things 
"work for me". Also I noticed some "cleanup" patches during last two 
months, some of them seem to be applied, some aren't [yet] (as of 
1.0.6a) but none of them seem, e-e-ehm, not "life-critical" for me 
(perhaps I'm wrong).

> Until i don't get my hands on a Desktop machine, it impossible for me to
> do any further testings. Unfortunately i will keep being very busy at
> least one more month. After that, there are chances to take over a
> Desktop x86 with a free PCI slot and some free time.
>  
Ok, thank you for your work anyway. My distribution currently includes 
at least some of openvortex patches (and other can be [easily] pushed 
in) so there're [some] customers of Aureal hardware as well, I could 
forward their reports to this list.