Re: ATI TV Wonder support

From: Anish Mistry (mistry.7_at_osu.edu)
Date: 11/26/04

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    To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
    Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:05:28 -0500
    
    
    

    On Friday 26 November 2004 11:47 am, you wrote:
    > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
    > > On Tuesday 23 November 2004 05:22 pm, Anish Mistry wrote:
    > >> On Tuesday 23 November 2004 04:48 pm, John Baldwin wrote:
    > >>> Actually, it looks like the patch changes the code to kick off a new
    > >>> kthread and that new kthread is going to need to acquire Giant at
    > >>> the start of its main() function and drop it before calling
    > >>> kthread_exit() and/or returning.
    > >>
    > >> How about the attached patch?
    > >> http://am-productions.biz/docs/msp34xx-giant-locking.c.diff
    > >
    > > Looks like a good candidate to me.
    >
    > I am interested in this patchset. Could you make the latest version
    > available somewhere?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
    > | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >
    This link is the latest to fix the panic when you have the new msp driver
    compiled into the kernel.
    The associated PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=74305
    http://am-productions.biz/docs/msp34xx-giant-locking.c.diff
    This is the patch to enable the ATI TV Wonder to work:(Justin's patch):
    http://am-productions.biz/docs/bktr.patch

    -- 
    Anish Mistry
    
    



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