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From: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
To: Harish K Harshan <harish@arl.amrita.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DMA Transfer problem
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:59:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43D624B4.5070300@superbug.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43D5B473.3060006@arl.amrita.edu>

Harish K Harshan wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   Im having problems with DMA transfer on Linux, for an ADC card. The 
> card is AxiomTek AX5621H, and can use DMA channels 1 and 3. I tried 
> both the channels, but the DMA transfers are irregular (i.e.) at 
> different speeds (which of course is not acceptable, since that 
> application is time critical). The device driver (which I wrote) seems 
> to work fine for all the other systems I tried it on. But this problem 
> occurs only on one particular model of computer (Chino-Laxsons 
> Pentium-4 boards). I tried another system with the same configuration, 
> but the same resulted. After some time of execution, I get the kernel 
> panic screen, which says the CPU context is corrupt. Please help me 
> with this problem, as I need to get this driver working somehow on the 
> P4 systems. I tried the Redhat-9 kernel (2.4.20-8) and the debian 
> kernel too (2.2.20).... gave the same results.
>
Could an ADC card be treated as a ALSA sound card PCM device.
That card seems to have features very similar to a sound card.
Sample rate.
Variable gain.
Multi-channels.
ADC
DMA

I only suggest this, because it could result in a driver that is much 
easier to implement as ALSA supplies a lot of generalised support code 
at the kernel level.

James


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-24 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-24  5:00 DMA Transfer problem Harish K Harshan
2006-01-24 12:59 ` James Courtier-Dutton [this message]
2006-01-24 13:20   ` Harish K Harshan
2006-01-24 13:22     ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-01-30 16:37     ` Martin Drab
2006-01-30 17:06       ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)

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