Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757444AbZKWMgO (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:36:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757417AbZKWMgN (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:36:13 -0500 Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:51930 "EHLO h5.dl5rb.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757416AbZKWMgN (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:36:13 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:36:15 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Takashi Iwai Cc: wuzhangjin@gmail.com, Thomas Bogendoerfer , Jaroslav Kysela , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Fixups of ALSA memory maps Message-ID: <20091123123615.GB32675@linux-mips.org> References: <9cbcd06037c18288a6493459b8f3a6e1562eca77.1258389992.git.wuzhangjin@gmail.com> <20091116174324.GA17748@linux-mips.org> <20091118142056.GB6615@linux-mips.org> <1258806701.5752.8.camel@falcon.domain.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1960 Lines: 47 On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:56:39AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:47 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > Well, we haven't reached the consensus. The discussion faded away > > > somehow mainly because I had too little time to update and ping people > > > again. > > > > > > In Tokyo, I talked with some guys regarding this. Ben agreed to take > > > this approach for ppc, and David said that he doesn't mind for sparc > > > part. Fujita-san mentioned it's no big problem to add one op from > > > the generic dma_ops. > > > > > > So, maybe somehow need to convince James in the end (and ask Paul to > > > check SH part, too), then it'll be all up... theoretically :) > > > > > > Anyway, I'm going to raise the discussion again on linux-arch. > > > I'm afraid it's a bit too late game for 2.6.33, but starting now is > > > better than too late again. > > > > Hi, Takashi Iwai > > > > Before the API stuff going into the mainline(2.6.33), can we apply this > > "[PATCH] MIPS: Fixups of ALSA memory maps"(This is the minimal > > necessares) as a current fixup. and then we will not get a broken sound > > support for MIPS, and also the support to the latest Loongson2F family > > machines will benefit from it. > > > > and Ralf, what about your suggestion? > > The question is whether this hack can be safely added for all MIPS > platforms just by checking kconfig. I had an impression that rather > many things have to be checked in the runtime. > > As I have really little clue about MIPS architecture, I'd like let > MIPS guys decide about it... Okay, I'll cook up a nice kludge. It can't cover all cases but it will be an improvment for most platforms. Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/