[linux-dvb] Re: TS Continuity problem reason found for budget-cards

["Robert Schlabbach" <robert_s@gmx.net>]

From: "Wolfgang Wegner" <wolfgang@leila.ping.de>
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:33:05PM +0100, Michael Hunold wrote:
> > It's possible that it's a hardware bug inside the saa7146. Or some sort
> > of wrap-around bug at the end of the buffer, that's not handled
> > correctly by the dma. After all it's a dma engine for analog video, so
> > perhaps there are some corner cases.
> I do know that driver writers do not like the SAA7146 much because
> of strange behaviour in some situations, but might it be a "real" ;-)
> hardware problem?

Might just as well be a bug in the Linux driver... At least I've never seen
this with my own Windows driver for the SAA7146A, the DMA of which appears
to be quite reliable if you know how to make it work right :-)

Regards,
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Robert Schlabbach
e-mail: robert_s@gmx.net
Berlin, Germany