[alsa-devel] als4000: enable burst mode

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Wed Aug 4 23:20:06 CEST 2010


At Wed, 4 Aug 2010 21:56:44 +0200,
Ondrej Zary wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 04 August 2010 21:31:32 Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Wed, 4 Aug 2010 21:08:14 +0200,
> >
> > Ondrej Zary wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 04 August 2010 07:43:44 Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > At Tue, 3 Aug 2010 23:57:05 +0200,
> > > >
> > > > Ondrej Zary wrote:
> > > > > Enable burst mode to prevent dropouts during high PCI bus usage.
> > > > > The card is useless in X without this because of dropouts when
> > > > > anything moves on the screen (at least with PCI VGA card). Enabling
> > > > > this is also recommended by the datasheet (page 48).
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux at rainbow-software.org>
> > > >
> > > > Applied now.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > My previous patch assumed that the DMA mode (represented by 3 lowest bits
> > > of ALS4K_GCR99_DMA_EMULATION_CTRL register) is set to the default value
> > > 0. If that's not the case, it might result in invalid mode to be set.
> > > This v2 patch fixes this potential problem.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux at rainbow-software.org>
> >
> > As the previous patch was already applied, could you give the
> > incremental change?
> 
> Of course, sorry for that.
> 
> 
> My previous patch assumed that the DMA mode (represented by 3 lowest bits of 
> ALS4K_GCR99_DMA_EMULATION_CTRL register) is set to the default value 0. If 
> that's not the case, it might result in invalid mode to be set.
> This patch fixes this potential problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux at rainbow-software.org>

Applied now.  Thanks!


Takashi


> --- linux-2.6.35-rc3-/sound/pci/als4000.c	2010-08-04 21:53:48.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.35-rc3/sound/pci/als4000.c	2010-08-04 20:57:00.000000000 +0200
> @@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ static void snd_als4000_configure(struct
>  		snd_als4k_gcr_write(chip, i, 0);
>  	/* enable burst mode to prevent dropouts during high PCI bus usage */
>  	snd_als4k_gcr_write(chip, ALS4K_GCR99_DMA_EMULATION_CTRL,
> -		snd_als4k_gcr_read(chip, ALS4K_GCR99_DMA_EMULATION_CTRL) | 0x04);
> +		(snd_als4k_gcr_read(chip, ALS4K_GCR99_DMA_EMULATION_CTRL) & ~0x07) | 0x04);
>  	spin_unlock_irq(&chip->reg_lock);
>  }
>  
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ondrej Zary
> 


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