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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3.2 22/52] ALSA: hda - Disable 64bit address for Creative HDA controllers
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On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 23:05 +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:33:59PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 3.2.74-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> >
> > commit cadd16ea33a938d49aee99edd4758cc76048b399 upstream.
> >
> > We've had many reports that some Creative sound cards with CA0132
> > don't work well.  Some reported that it starts working after reloading
> > the module, while some reported it starts working when a 32bit kernel
> > is used.  All these facts seem implying that the chip fails to
> > communicate when the buffer is located in 64bit address.
> >
> > This patch addresses these issues by just adding AZX_DCAPS_NO_64BIT
> > flag to the corresponding PCI entries.  I casually had a chance to
> > test an SB Recon3D board, and indeed this seems helping.
> >
> > Although this hasn't been tested on all Creative devices, it's safer
> > to assume that this restriction applies to the rest of them, too.  So
> > the flag is applied to all Creative entries.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> > [bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop the change to AZX_DCAPS_PRESET_CTHDA]
>
> Is there a reason for dropping this change?  Adding the
> AZX_DCAPS_NO_64BIT flag to the AZX_DCAPS_PRESET_CTHDA definition does
> seem to make sense.
[...]

The AZX_DCAPS_PRESET_CTHDA macro was introduced in 3.5.

Ben.

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