Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] add the nvidia HDMI codec driver for MCP77/79

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:11:16 +0200,
Pavel Hofman wrote:
> 
> 
> >> ......
> >> According to these codes, It only can get the realtek codec and can not
> >> get hdmi codec, if just change azx_max_codecs[AZX_DRIVER_NVIDIA] to 4
> >> I think if remove "if (!audio_codecs)", it will be better, and I only
> >> need to chang azx_max_codecs[AZX_DRIVER_NVIDIA] to 4
> > 
> > Well, the check is there for a good reason.
> > 
> > There are many machines with broken BIOS reporting the 4th slot
> > available although it isn't actually.  It's a workaround to skip such
> > a bogus information.  So, it cannot be changed so easily.
> > 
> > We need to sort out this in a better way...  Oh well.
> 
> 
> Please, please, put the above information as a comment to the respective 
> place. These "hacks" should be commented :)

I changed that code yesterday with a little bit more comment.

Wei, Peer, could you regenerate the patch based on the latest sound
git tree?

    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git

or use the snapshot tarball from

    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/tiwai/snapshot/

This already contains the fix for the 4th slot probe on Nvidia
chipset.


thanks,

Takashi