At Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:31:41 +0800, Wu Zhangjin 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... thanks, Takashi
