From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 15 13:17:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0F037B402 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:17:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0FLFp193103; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:15:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200101152106.f0FL6l487391@earth.backplane.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:17:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Matt Dillon Subject: Re: OOPS.. (Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, roman@harmonic.co.il, keichii@peorth.iteration.net, opentrax@email.com, Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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