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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:38:54 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca>
Subject:   Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?
Message-ID:  <200403051938.54236.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200403050836.JAA10775@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com>
References:  <200403050836.JAA10775@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com>

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:06, Helge Oldach wrote:
> The issue with kldloading is that you still need PNPBIOS for many
> on-board sound devices. Which means that you need to compile your own
> kernel anyway, or don=B4t you?

I don't think I've ever seen a motherboard/BIOS where you HAD to compile it=
 in=20
the kernel..
I don't see why kldload'ing is different to static compilation WRT calling =
the=20
BIOS..

(Then again I don't have any ISA hardware anymore :)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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