[mythtv-users] Firewire troubles after upgrade. Is test-mepg2 mightier than MythTV?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>>> I installed an old PCI firewire controller (VIA Technologies, Inc.
>>> VT6306 Fire II) and everything just worked.
>>
>> Is that Via chip reporting as OHCI 1.0 or 1.1? Trying to prove out my
>> theory that OHCI 1.1's dual-buffer isochronous receive is generally
>> boned...
>
> The Via chip is reporting as OHCI 1.0 and the TI is reporting as OHCI 1.1.

Would be very interesting then to see if you're previously non-working
TI chip starts working in 2.6.33 (or in an earlier kernel respun with
a one-line change that'll keep ohci 1.1 cards from using
dual-buffer)...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com