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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:17:47 -0500
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
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Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?
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Robert Watson wrote:
>>[pcm in GENERIC]
> Actually, pcm was in GENERIC for a while, but was removed because it
> caused hangs on boot with a common line of Dell Latitude notebooks at the
> time.  The problem is likely now fixed, and I'd certainly not object to it
> being in GENERIC as long as there are no similar widespread issues
> now.

Isn't there also an issue with some of the sound code being GPL'd (the
stuff in sys/gnu/dev/sound/pci, ie the emu10k1 and maestro stuff)?
If this goes into a GENERIC kernel that's redistributed, the whole
kernel has to be distributed under the GPL.

Rahul