Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:59:38 -0500 From: Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel? Message-ID: <20040305175938.3a5f8d31.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200403051446.38592.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20040303163157.3440f8cb.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> <200403051446.38592.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:49:45 -0500 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:31 pm, Randy Pratt wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:03:40 +0100 (CET) you wrote: > > > I've been on the question list for some time, and I have noticed > > > that many people do not know how to get sound support up and > > > running in FreeBSD 5.X. I know that re-compiling the kernel is easy > > > enough, but there are still people not willing to do so, as I have > > > noticed on the list. Therefor I thought it might be an idea to put > > > sound support in the GENERIC kernel configuration, so that newbies > > > will no longer find themselves stuck with that. > > > > I think I've read more than one time about problems fitting the > > installation on the 1.44M floppies. > > That's no longer a problem in 5.x. I would like to see pcm(4) added back to > GENERIC on 5.x. 4.x has been around long enough that its GENERIC can > probably just stay the way it is. That being the case, then there's no reason not to have it in GENERIC in 5.x. Anyone that doesn't want/need it will be recompiling the kernel to remove other unused options. The less new (desktop) users have to do to get up and running is probably a good thing to do. Any concern I had is gone. Best regards, Randy --
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