[alsa-devel] My PC has 6GB memory but the limitation of the alsa-driver is 4GB.

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:53:02 +0900,
Emmanuel Chanel wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote at 08:15 +0100 , 2009-03-16 (Mon)
> > Hmm, then it's a bug of AMD/ATI controller chip. 
> > 
> > The problem is however likely only about CORB/RIRB addresses, and not
> > about the sample buffers.  So setting 32bit there couldn't be the
> > "right" fix.
> 
> Yeah, he said so, too. I mistook.
> 
> > How about the patch below?
> 
> I tried but it says
> 
> ----
> [emmanuel at star1 alsa-driver-1.0.19]$ patch -p1 <
> hda_intel_Takashi_Iwai_0903161.diff
> patching file sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 2136.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 2218.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 2319.
> 3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c.rej
> ----
> 
> Which version of the source shall I patch ? svn ?

The latest alsa-driver GIT tree is found in sound git tree:
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git

The corresponding snapshot tarball is at:
    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz


Takashi