Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:17:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, roman@harmonic.co.il, keichii@peorth.iteration.net, opentrax@email.com, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: OOPS.. (Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support Message-ID: <XFMail.010115131723.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200101152106.f0FL6l487391@earth.backplane.com>
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On 15-Jan-01 Matt Dillon wrote: > 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. Umm, by default there are no ISA drivers configured, so the only sound cards that would be probed are PnP and PCI cards. These probes are non destructive and won't cause problems. I agree that any ISA probes should be disabled by default. > -Matt -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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