From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 1 2: 9:51 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 1 02:09:50 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shark.harmonic.co.il (jupiter.harmonic.co.il [192.116.140.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8E037B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 02:09:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (roman@localhost) by shark.harmonic.co.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA21594; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:09:30 +0200 Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:09:30 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon To: opentrax@email.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support In-Reply-To: <200012282317.PAA04405@spammie.svbug.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 opentrax@email.com wrote: > > On 28 Dec, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > Having been hit by this today, how about MFCing the following change? > > > > revision 1.289 > > date: 2000/11/14 01:11:13; author: jkh; state: Exp; lines: +4 -1 > > In the year 2000, I think it's perfectly reasonable to include audio > > support by default in GENERIC. > > > I can't answer for JKH or others but audio has had a history > of problems, especially durning the boot-up probe stage. > Problems such that it might lock up the machine under > certain conditions. Perhaps this is the reason sound may > never make it into GENERIC. Yes, I really hope that it doesn't make it into the GENERIC. GENERIC kernel should provide fully functional and stable machine without bells and whistles. Sound is a luxury. --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message