Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:17:47 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel? Message-ID: <20040304191747.GA14554@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040304114614.49288C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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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
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