[alsa-devel] hard freezes with hdsp with cardbus/pci adapter card

[Tim Blechmann]

hm, actually, i think the issue is related to the pci latency of the
cardbus controller.

after changing the latency timer of the card to 0xff, i am running the
system for about an hour without freeze. the new output of lspci is:

06:01.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller
(rev 01)
	Subsystem: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 255, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
	Region 0: Memory at fb600000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=06, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176
	Memory window 0: c4000000-c7fff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: c8000000-cbfff000
	I/O window 0: 0000e000-0000e0ff
	I/O window 1: 0000e400-0000e4ff
	BridgeCtl: Parity+ SERR+ ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- PostWrite+
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
	Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
	Kernel modules: yenta_socket


i am not sure, whether it is related, but the hdsp driver sets its
latency timer to 0xff as well, commented with:

	/* From Martin Bjoernsen :
	    "It is important that the card's latency timer register in
	    the PCI configuration space is set to a value much larger
	    than 0 by the computer's BIOS or the driver.
	    The windows driver always sets this 8 bit register [...]
	    to its maximum 255 to avoid problems with some computers."
	*/

maybe the ene bridge doesn't like to have devices connected, with a
higher latency timer value, that it is using itself?

tim

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