Hda patch from this day

Alexander Motin mav at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 26 15:03:34 UTC 2008


Robert Noland wrote:
>> with your 20080825 patch:
>> cat /dev/sndstat:
>> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
>> Installed devices:
>> pcm0: <HDA codec Realtek ALC260 PCM #0> at hdac0 cad 0
>> kld snd_hda [20080825_0100] [GIANT] (0p:0v/1r:1v channels default)
> 
> Giant?  That could be the source of my boot hang.  My root filesys is
> off of usb, which is also Giant, so if your holding the lock...

Actually have no idea what does that mean yet. HDA driver itself locked
without using Giant, and I don't know where it comes from. May be from
sound subsystem, maybe from somewhere else. All I have done is created
child device pcm0 from hdac0 and it appeared in a such way. Probably I
had to dig deeper into device creation to understand this.

-- 
Alexander Motin


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