On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 23:05 +0000, Luis Henriques wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:33:59PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > 3.2.74-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> > > > > commit cadd16ea33a938d49aee99edd4758cc76048b399 upstream. > > > > We've had many reports that some Creative sound cards with CA0132 > > don't work well. Some reported that it starts working after reloading > > the module, while some reported it starts working when a 32bit kernel > > is used. All these facts seem implying that the chip fails to > > communicate when the buffer is located in 64bit address. > > > > This patch addresses these issues by just adding AZX_DCAPS_NO_64BIT > > flag to the corresponding PCI entries. I casually had a chance to > > test an SB Recon3D board, and indeed this seems helping. > > > > Although this hasn't been tested on all Creative devices, it's safer > > to assume that this restriction applies to the rest of them, too. So > > the flag is applied to all Creative entries. > > > > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> > > [bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop the change to AZX_DCAPS_PRESET_CTHDA] > > Is there a reason for dropping this change? Adding the > AZX_DCAPS_NO_64BIT flag to the AZX_DCAPS_PRESET_CTHDA definition does > seem to make sense. [...] The AZX_DCAPS_PRESET_CTHDA macro was introduced in 3.5. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody.
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