[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] fix for stream corruption on budget /Nova-T cards

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Jon Burgess wrote:
> Robert Schlabbach wrote:
>
>  > A much more elegant solution would be to completely rewrite the budget
>  > transfers to utilize an SAA7146A RPS task to directly DMA the data to 
>  > the output buffers so that no additional copying is necessary.
>
> That would be OK for receiving the whole TS, but I doubt that the RPS is 
> clever enough to do the PID filtering (I could be wrong - I don't know 
> any details about the RPS programming).
why do you want to do PID filtering on the RPS? it's done in software in 
the current Nova driver anyway...

A clever RPS program would just replace the busy-waiting timing critical 
DMA-register reprogramming code.

Robert: would you post the RPS code snippets from your BDA code?

Holger




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