Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 16:12:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Switching sound drivers (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa/snd ad1848.c sb_dsp.c sound.c) Message-ID: <199806081412.QAA05087@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19980608144323.17716@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Jun 8, 98 02:43:23 pm"
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In reply to Eivind Eklund who wrote:
> [moved to -current]
>
> > Aha, thanks for pointing this out - you're right. I uncommented pcm0
> > and all the audio drivers under the impression that it would cause
> > pcm0 to be built as well but now that you mention it, of course, I
> > find that to be totally untrue. Feh. Since nobody's even supporting
> > the "old" audio driver anymore, perhaps we should just bite the bullet
> > and migrate for -current?
>
> I'm in favour. The old driver seems full of bogus code anyway, as we
> dropped tracking the OSS/Free releases. I tried to integrate C924
> support in mad16.c yesterday, and suddenly found that there were no
> references _at all_ to this file... I'm getting a new soundcard
> instead.
Hmm, we will loose the ability to run popular Linux games then, as
they use the mmap etc functionality in the VoxWare derived sound
drivers and Luigi's driver hasn't got that support, nor is it in
his plans AFAIK ...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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