Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Alan,
> Em Seg, 2006-03-20 às 23:09 +0100, thomas schorpp escreveu:
>
>>Alan Stern wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Ballentine, Casey wrote:
>
>
>>what DMA problem? ive always used via chipsets with usb. now the 8237.
>
>
>>the via pci-busmaster dma hangs the system?
>
> No. it is PCI to PCI transfers ocurring while you have DMA transfers.
i see
>
> Video capture boards allow you to transfer information from his capture
> memory to video memory without CPU.
classic vga video overlay, e.g., right?
> The problem is that some chipsets
> (or BIOS) can't handle concurrency between such transfers and normal PCI
> busmaster transfers.
maybe the reason for the green flashes in the picture i have with epox 8kha+
and asrock k7vt4a+ (both via 82xx).
its gone since i added a sil680 pci ide-controller for the disks and using
the via ide only for dvdr/dvdrw drives now..
>
>> try setting pci latency to 64.
>>most bioses initialize with 32. this had been a known problem, for me too.
>>this has been left out of the discussion at via forums.
>>
>>and what knows a usb controller about MPEG? thats another layer.
>>
>>so a bios fixes this and other os have no problem with this,
>>so its fixable by software. then do it now, pls.
>
> If you have such a fix, great, but while we don't have it, it is better
> to blacklist pci2pci transfers (there are other supported methods that
> are a little slow, but works as well as), than to offer a risk of mass
> corruption at their disks.
yes, indeed a good point. remember i blamed the v4l bt87x driver with xawtv for
corrupting my root fs on kernel 2.4 some years ago, you can find the bug report on
the v4l list, if i remember it right...
>
> Btw, are you sure that other OS offers pci2pci transfers for those
> devices/chipsets?
the question is *if* the hardware can handle this, as you said, so
blacklisting hardware that cannot handle this error free should be ok,
sorry.
but if windos hadnt had support for this, i wouldnt have been able
to use overlay video with the hauppauge wintv bt87x for years without
any issue i can remember... right?
>
>
>>and stop this "blacklisting habit", all these nowadays chips are designed-to-cost
>>"consumer crap" somewhow.
>>or do you want linux-usb to be blacklisted as "broken" by the manufacturers blacklists? ;)
>>
>>
>>y
>>tom
>>
>
> Cheers,
> Mauro.
>
>
cheers,
tom
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