Bug#815787: May be a kernel problem not a pulseaudio one?
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2016 9:36 AM, "Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn" <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com> wrote:
> >
> > "Apparently there is some work under way to allow both ZONE_DEVICE
> > (needed for DAX) and ZONE_DMA (needed by the sound drivers) to be
> > supported in the same kernel configuration."
>
> Yeah, but do you actually need or use ZONE_DEVICE?
I don't think so.
> Even DAX doesn't actually need it except for some special cases, iirc.
I think so too.
> I don't think distributions should necessarily enable it at all yet.
Well, they obviously do, for some reason :(
> > and there may be some hope with:
> >
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2170767.html
> >
> > Is there, Linus?
>
> Yes, but that's 4.6 of later. And unlikely to be marked for back
> porting to stable.
I'll need to be pacient then :)
> So *eventually* we'll support that combination, but for now...
Cheers,
--
Cristian
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