[linux-dvb] DVB on Alpha

[Ralph Metzler <rjkm@convergence.de>]

Hi,

Manfred Petz writes:
 > We're planning a project in partnership with a Cable-TV provider and
 > Compaq. Part of the project is to provide Video RTP Multicasts with at
 > least 32 channels in two separate locations (one CatV network and an xDSL
 > network).
 > 
 > If've been playing around with Linux-DVB for the last couple of days. My
 > test-system works fine with an Intel-PC, a PCI-expansion card and 6 WinTV
 > DVB-S cards plugged into it(*).
 > 
 > It would be very attractive both for us and for Compaq to use Alpha-Hardware
 > in favor to Intel-PCs. However, the saa7146_core.o crashes the system upon
 > loading the module. Can anybody help to track this down? The crash occurs
 > within the `for (count=0 ... count+=PAGE_SIZE)' loop. BTW: Alpha has 8K
 > pages. This occurs both in the latest CVS-version of the driver and in
 > 8.9.3. Linux-kernel version is 2.4.10. Please contact me for more
 > information.


Can you provide a more detailed dump with source code of the relevant
code, e.g. "objdump -D -S saa7146_core.o" (but only the rvmalloc
part please)?


Ralph


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