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Message-ID: <s5hsjuuly8n.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:46:32 +0100
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	Adam Lackorzynski <adam@...inf.tu-dresden.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: Only write ICH6_PCIREG_TCSEL on Intel systems.

At Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:41:56 +0100,
Adam Lackorzynski wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 16:44:35 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:22:12 +0100,
> > Adam Lackorzynski wrote:
> > > azx_init_pci() always writes PCI config register ICH6_PCIREG_TCSEL
> > > although this looks to be only defined on Intel systems and has a
> > > different meaning on AMD systems. On AMD systems the PCI interrupt pin
> > > control register is modified instead. Since the register has 'ICH' in
> > > its name I pulled the call to update_pci_byte() into the switch block to
> > > only happen on Intel variants. I'm not sure on the other variants.
> > 
> > So, you did check only AMD systems, right?
> > 
> > Then it's safer to exclude this for AMD but apply to others for the
> > time being, since we haven't got any relevant bug reports by this.
> > Could you re-submit with that change?
> > 
> > The fact that it has ICH prefix doesn't mean much -- it's just like
> > the driver is called snd-hda-intel.  The first hardware, the first
> > set.  (At that time, we weren't sure at that time that HD-audio spec
> > would be followed widely by most vendors.)
> 
> I tried to find other chipset specifications and had no luck, so I don't
> know what other vendors have there. I think it's luck that those PCI
> config writes cause no harm.

Or they follow also this behavior to be compatible :)  Who knows.


>  Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: Prevent writing ICH6_PCIREG_TCSEL on AMD systems.
> 
> azx_init_pci() always writes PCI config register ICH6_PCIREG_TCSEL
> although this looks to be only defined on Intel systems and has a
> different meaning on AMD systems. On AMD systems the PCI interrupt pin
> control register is modified instead.
> 
> Since the meaning of offset 0x44 in device specific configuration space is
> unknown for devices by other vendors, we only exclude AMD systems to
> retain the current behaviour.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Lackorzynski <adam@...inf.tu-dresden.de>

Thanks, applied now.


Takashi

> ---
>  sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c |    7 +++++--
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> index fcedad9..70a9d32 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> @@ -1052,9 +1052,12 @@ static void azx_init_pci(struct azx *chip)
>  	/* Clear bits 0-2 of PCI register TCSEL (at offset 0x44)
>  	 * TCSEL == Traffic Class Select Register, which sets PCI express QOS
>  	 * Ensuring these bits are 0 clears playback static on some HD Audio
> -	 * codecs
> +	 * codecs.
> +	 * The PCI register TCSEL is defined in the Intel manuals.
>  	 */
> -	update_pci_byte(chip->pci, ICH6_PCIREG_TCSEL, 0x07, 0);
> +	if (chip->driver_type != AZX_DRIVER_ATI &&
> +	    chip->driver_type != AZX_DRIVER_ATIHDMI)
> +		update_pci_byte(chip->pci, ICH6_PCIREG_TCSEL, 0x07, 0);
>  
>  	switch (chip->driver_type) {
>  	case AZX_DRIVER_ATI:
> -- 
> 1.7.2.3
> 
> 
> Adam
> -- 
> Adam                 adam@...inf.tu-dresden.de
>   Lackorzynski         http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~adam/
> 
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