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- Lines: 142
- Date:
Sun Jul 8 13:14:00 2001
- Orig file:
v2.4.6/linux/Documentation/DocBook/via-audio.tmpl
- Orig date:
Mon Oct 30 12:24:22 2000
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.6/linux/Documentation/DocBook/via-audio.tmpl linux/Documentation/DocBook/via-audio.tmpl
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
</authorgroup>
<copyright>
- <year>2000</year>
+ <year>1999-2001</year>
<holder>Jeff Garzik</holder>
</copyright>
@@ -149,23 +149,6 @@
<title>Known Bugs And Assumptions</title>
<para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term>MMAP support</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- MMAP support is currently missing. Make sure to
- test with Quake.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term>AC97 codec timeout during init</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- A warning message "via82cxxx: timeout while reading AC97
- codec" is printed during driver initialization. This
- message can safely be ignored.
- </para>
- </listitem></varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry><term>Low volume</term>
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -198,6 +181,16 @@
<para>
AC97 mixer interface fixes and debugging by Ron Cemer <email>roncemer@gte.net</email>.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Rui Sousa <email>rui.sousa@conexant.com</email>, for bugfixing
+ MMAP support, and several other notable fixes that resulted from
+ his hard work and testing.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Adrian Cox <email>adrian@humboldt.co.uk</email>, for bugfixing
+ MMAP support, and several other notable fixes that resulted from
+ his hard work and testing.
+ </para>
</chapter>
<chapter id="notes">
@@ -219,7 +212,10 @@
and device ids are not examined.
</para>
<para>
- GNU indent formatting options: -kr -i8 -pcs
+ GNU indent formatting options:
+ <programlisting>
+-kr -i8 -ts8 -br -ce -bap -sob -l80 -pcs -cs -ss -bs -di1 -nbc -lp -psl
+ </programlisting>
</para>
<para>
Via has graciously donated e-mail support and source code to help further
@@ -237,6 +233,79 @@
<chapter id="changelog">
<title>Driver ChangeLog</title>
+
+<sect1 id="version1115"><title>
+Version 1.1.15
+</title>
+ <itemizedlist spacing=compact>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Support for variable fragment size and variable fragment number (Rui
+ Sousa)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fixes for the SPEED, STEREO, CHANNELS, FMT ioctls when in read &
+ write mode (Rui Sousa)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Mmaped sound is now fully functional. (Rui Sousa)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make sure to enable PCI device before reading any of its PCI
+ config information. (fixes potential hotplug problems)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Clean up code a bit and add more internal function documentation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ AC97 codec access fixes (Adrian Cox)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Big endian fixes (Adrian Cox)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ MIDI support (Adrian Cox)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Detect and report locked-rate AC97 codecs. If your hardware only
+ supports 48Khz (locked rate), then your recording/playback software
+ must upsample or downsample accordingly. The hardware cannot do it.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Use new pci_request_regions and pci_disable_device functions in
+ kernel 2.4.6.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
<sect1 id="version1114"><title>
Version 1.1.14
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