Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:08:03 +0100 (MET) From: Helge Oldach <helge.oldach@atosorigin.com> To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Cc: mat@cnd.mcgill.ca Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel? Message-ID: <200403051308.OAA11478@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com> In-Reply-To: <200403051938.54236.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> from "Daniel O'Connor" at "Mar 5, 2004 10: 8:54 am"
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Daniel O'Connor: >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 donīt you? > >I don't think I've ever seen a motherboard/BIOS where you HAD to >compile it in the kernel.. I have a number of Compaq DeskPro EN K450 here. Rather decent machines for FreeBSD desktops, and for sure not uncommon hardware. But unfortunately the stupid Compaq BIOS doesn't have a knob to turn off PnP, so I have to rely on PNPBIOS to deal with what the Compaq BIOS had detected. With PNPBIOS: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: <ESS 1869 DSP> at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:0 bufsz 4096 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex) Without PNPBIOS: no pcm0. Latest BIOS revision, of course. >I don't see why kldload'ing is different to static compilation WRT >calling the BIOS.. It's not. But without PNPBIOS either won't work on these boxes. Helge
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