Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:21:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, mestery@winternet.com, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with my Wincast, fxtv Message-ID: <199708171121.NAA09146@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199708170956.TAA04178@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 17, 97 07:25:58 pm
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> Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying: > > > > Next release of the sound driver will not use isa_dmastatus from isa.c > > rather I will duplicate the functionality in the sound driver. > > Am I the only person that thinks that this is unbelievably stupid? > > All of a sudden, the sound drivers are the only kernel subsystem that > need PnP support, and now ISA DMA support too? Please spare a few > seconds thought for the integrity of the system as a whole, rather > than as a vehicle for your pet projects... I think amancio has to fight with backward compatibility, that's why he wants to ship a standalone driver (guspnpXX.tgz) with all the pieces he needs. BUt of course, in the long term, Mike is right. Cheers Luigihelp
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