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 <ti...@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 <ti...@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.
Cheers,
--
Luís
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
> ---
> --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> @@ -3099,11 +3099,13 @@ static DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(azx_ids)
> .class = PCI_CLASS_MULTIMEDIA_HD_AUDIO << 8,
> .class_mask = 0xffffff,
> .driver_data = AZX_DRIVER_CTX | AZX_DCAPS_CTX_WORKAROUND |
> + AZX_DCAPS_NO_64BIT |
> AZX_DCAPS_RIRB_PRE_DELAY | AZX_DCAPS_POSFIX_LPIB },
> #else
> /* this entry seems still valid -- i.e. without emu20kx chip */
> { PCI_DEVICE(0x1102, 0x0009),
> .driver_data = AZX_DRIVER_CTX | AZX_DCAPS_CTX_WORKAROUND |
> + AZX_DCAPS_NO_64BIT |
> AZX_DCAPS_RIRB_PRE_DELAY | AZX_DCAPS_POSFIX_LPIB },
> #endif
> /* Vortex86MX */
>
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