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SubjectRe: [regression] 2.6.25-rc4 snd-es18xx broken on Alpha
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Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> Sounds like a DMA screwup.

Agreed. There's a comment line near the top of the es18xx.c that has
been there for a *long* time:

Support for 16 bit DMA seems to be broken. I've no hardware
to tune it.

Supposedly with the ES1888, dma1 is for capture, dma2 is for playback.
dma2 == 5 is a 16-bit channel, yes? That could explain much...

As for the values "chosen" for dma1 and dma2, they are the ones that
keep showing up in the Alpha sound "howto" postings/documents. The
driver can cope with dma1 == dma2 by enforcing half-duplex mode in
software, but the OSS "sb" driver works fine with the indicated DMA
channel values. Besides, if the ES1888 is really capable of full-duplex
operation, a potential half-duplex workaround doesn't have much appeal.

> I wonder if it still works on x86 - perhaps you ought to ask ALSA folks.

I tried contacting the driver authors as indicated in the driver source
file. Christian Fischbach seems to have disappeared. Still waiting to
hear from Abramo Bagnara.

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