From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 15 13:17:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cgi.sstar.com (cgi.sstar.com [209.205.176.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D909A37B401 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:17:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from jking (jking.lgc.com [134.132.76.82]) by cgi.sstar.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0FLGZ933232 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128 bits) verified NO); Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:16:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <01d201c07f38$76d52470$524c8486@jking> From: "Jim King" To: "Matt Dillon" , "Jordan Hubbard" Cc: , , , References: <83645.979588312@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200101152106.f0FL6l487391@earth.backplane.com> Subject: Re: OOPS.. (Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:16:35 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Matt Dillon" : > 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