Jason Hecker <jwhecker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >I seem to have fixed the problem for now. It's the hoary old problem >of Mythtv's backend coming up and accessing the cards before the >firmware has loaded onto the cards. Adding in a startup delay to >myth-backend's init script has solved the problem, for now. The >firmware seems to load now on Mythbuntu 10.04 without a problem. > >Is there some way to put a lock in the driver or even speed up the >process of loading the firmware with some command line arguments when >the saa7134 driver is loaded? >-- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" >in >the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html The ivtv and cx18 driver have that sort of logic in them. Look for init_on_first_open and serialized_open functions that set some firmware loading related bit flags. I'm not sure what saa7134 does, but devloping a patch to add something similar shouldn't be rocket science for anyone with time, test hardware, and motivation. -Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
