From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: emi62 (may be slightly off-topic) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:26:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4D821A18.30407@ladisch.de> <4D894196.4040002@gmail.com> <1360657074.2790.71.camel@chello084112006029.chello.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602C22616B9 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:26:04 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Monty Montgomery Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Karl Grill List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:14:46 -0500, Monty Montgomery wrote: > > > Do you still have the patch for async load? > > Oh yes. I should check it against 3.7 > > And for the record, it's a complete new loader, one module for both > eMagic boxes, so the patch consists of removing several files and > adding new ones. This makes more sense, indeed. > > The fix patch on the blog > > entry isn't that. > > Correct. There were other [minor] problems in the old loader, but > without fixing the deadlock, it's all sort of moot. Also, the 6|2 > loader is currently trying to use firmware for some other device-- > it's not 6|2 firmware. if you do succeed in loading what's currently > shipping, the device simply crashes. > > So, I came to the conclusion a few years ago i was the last person > using eMagic boxes (though people since then have sent me mail for the > driver, so I know that's not quite true). Or people just had used the old kernel :) Takashi