Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:53:29 +0800 (CST) From: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: Paul Seniura <pdseniura@techie.com> Subject: Re: What happened to src/sys/dev/sound/midi ? Message-ID: <04060512374716.69305@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <200406042042.05123.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <XFMail.20040604131429.conrads@cox.net> <200406042042.05123.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Friday 04 June 2004 20:14, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > > If the man comes across as a little "abrasive", it's probably because he's > > a little upset at having functionality he's come to rely on suddenly > > removed without warning. You can hardly blame him, really. > > > > Why couldn't this have been held off until the replacement drivers were > > ready to be added? This makes no sense to me at all. > > Probably because there IS NO userbase of those drivers. I certainly have a > hard time imagining there are still people around with a GUS or Roland > MPU-401 and using it for MIDI on FreeBSD-CURRENT... Well, I *did* have a GUS running on an AMD5x86 PC until 2 years ago; however, since the VoxWare sound support was removed since 4-STABLE, that box was still running 3.3-RELEASE to get MIDI support. It's really a surprise to me that sys/dev/sound/midi was removed from recent -CURRENT since MIDI was one of the most important reasons I upgraded(another box with Creative SoundBlaster 16 + YAMAHA DB50XG daughter board) from 4-STABLE to -CURRENT. I'm really looking forward to the merging of new MIDI framework. If there's anything I can help, please don't hesitate to drop me a mail.
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