[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with WinTV NOVA-CI

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>]

Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> On Monday 13 Dec 2004 14:49, Simeon Walker wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 15:31 +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > > saa7146_core.c:saa7146_init_one()
> > > ...
> > >         /* we don't do a master reset here anymore, it screws up
> > >            some boards that don't have an i2c-eeprom for configuration
> > >            values */
> > > /*
> > >         saa7146_write(dev, MC1, MASK_31);
> > > */
> >
> > I have an old Nova-T (not CI) and on every kernel/driver install I
> > uncomment this line. The card will then work if the modules are loaded,
> > unloaded and loaded again after a cold boot. On subsequent warm boots
> > this is not required.
> >
> > I have had many different kernels from 2.4.x to 2.6.10rc2, the card has
> > been in two completely different machines (an MSI Hermes 650 and now a
> > VIA M10K based box) but none of this changes the behaviour.
> 
> Can someone explain what exactly goes wrong with these boards?

Michael should be able to comment on this. If this broken
behaviour is specific to some types of boards we should add
a black list for them and do the reset for the others.

Johannes