From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 15 14: 8:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.a1.org.uk (ns.a1.org.uk [194.105.64.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D6B37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:08:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from aer001@localhost) by ns.a1.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA68138 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:08:11 GMT (envelope-from aer001) From: Catch-all m-box Message-Id: <200101152208.WAA68138@ns.a1.org.uk> Subject: Re: OOPS.. (Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support) In-Reply-To: <200101152156.f0FLu9s00932@mass.osd.bsdi.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 15, 2001 01:56:08 pm" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:08:11 +0000 (GMT) Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Is it even necessary to have pcm in GENERIC since its a kld in -current too? > > No; putting sound support in GENERIC is entirely unnecessary where the KLD > is available. If you want sound, load the KLD either through /boot/ > loader.conf, or add a "sound_enable" knob to /etc/rc.conf. I thought the whole point of the GENERIC kernel is to support enough to allow an install on the majority of systems and allow the PC to be operable. I always compile a new GENERIC kernel when upgrading, as well as the hosts own kernel, but, only for disaster recovery. I just don't see any point at all in having sound in the GENERIC kernel. Maybe people are just too lazy to compile their own kernels. Bap. > > > > Well, sound is *already* in GENERIC in -current and has been for > > > awhile with no complaints at all from the snapshot users, so the sky > > > hasn't fallen yet. There are also certainly a lot of drivers > > > currently in GENERIC which would cause me far more concern if I was > > > worried about things breaking during the probe. That's not to say > > > that we shouldn't do such a "potential impact audit" for GENERIC at > > > some point, but I wouldn't start first with the pcm driver if we were > > > to do so. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message