[mythtv-users] Building another system, hardware questions

[Wander Winkelhorst]

On 3/7/06, Wander Winkelhorst <w.winkelhorst at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/7/06, Rod Emerson <rod at emerson.id.au> wrote:
>
> > > It has buggy hardware (use cpufreq and DMA at the same time and your
> > > in for some lockups)
> >
> > I use the patch from (it works) :
> > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0512.0/1573.html
>
> Wow, thanks a lot, I hadn't found this patch yet, I'm going to try this ASAP.

This patch only seems to wait for IDE drive DMA, it does nothing for
any other DMA devices, like for instance, a PVR500 board that might be
streaming video over DMA.

Did you (Rod) have any stability issues at all since using this patch?
Or is the low-bandwidth video not enough to trigger the bug?