[PATCH] - trident cyberblade FIFO status check

[Alex Deucher]

On 5/22/05, Laurence Darby <ldarby at sdf-eu.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 15 May 2005, Laurence Darby wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was getting the audio problems described here:
> > www.alsa-project.org/misc/vgakills.txt
> >
> > It's caused by writing to a FIFO without checking if it's full or not, and
> > if it is full, the PCI bus locks up for long enough to damage the audio
> > stream to the sound card.  I've fixed it for the trident cyberblade chip.
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I take it that my kludge to blade_accel.c wasn't very acceptable, but
> still would really like to see this implemented, because for me it's fixed
> a major problem.  Is there a better way so it is acceptable, like making
> it configurable with an option?  It was my first ever patch, so I'm sure
> there's lots of space for improvement....
> 
> Thanks,
> Laurence
> 

Probably no one has gotten a chance to look at it yet.  Post your
patch as an attachment to a bug on https://bugs.freedesktop.org
Then we can track it and review it.

Alex