Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:16:35 -0600 From: "Jim King" <jim@jimking.net> To: "Matt Dillon" <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, "Jordan Hubbard" <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: <opentrax@email.com>, <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, <roman@harmonic.co.il>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OOPS.. (Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support) Message-ID: <01d201c07f38$76d52470$524c8486@jking> References: <83645.979588312@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200101152106.f0FL6l487391@earth.backplane.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
"Matt Dillon" <dillon@earth.backplane.com>: > I think it would be a bad idea to put sound in GENERIC, not so much > because the concept is a bad idea, but because there are a huge number > of sound chips on the market with varying levels of compatibility and > complexity and probing for them in GENERIC could result in GENERIC not > working on as wide a range of machines as it would otherwise. When > I install on a workstation, I always install without sound first to > get the thing working, then I mess around with the sound drivers. Just a suggestion: Distribute 3 or 4 kernels and let the user pick which one they want install. Have one be like the current state of GENERIC, one tuned for servers (with RAID drivers, etc.), one tuned for modern workstations (sound, etc.). Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?01d201c07f38$76d52470$524c8486>