Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 20:16:42 +0100 From: Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org> To: David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> Cc: Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deprecating ISA sound cards Message-ID: <6C820317-449B-4C3D-AB03-D18A763A7DC1@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <04DBD89A-A857-4790-BE3B-C3B90AD563EC@FreeBSD.org> References: <04DBD89A-A857-4790-BE3B-C3B90AD563EC@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 20. Mar 2022, at 15:45, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFOn 19 Mar 2022, at 21:24, Chris <bsd-lists@BSDforge.com> wrote: >>=20 >>> On 2022-03-18 09:08, Ed Maste wrote: >>> ISA sound cards have been obsolete for more than a decade, and it is >>> (past) time to retire their drivers. This includes the following >>> drivers/devices: >>> snd_ad1816 Analog Devices AD1816 SoundPort >>> snd_ess Ensoniq ESS >>> snd_gusc Gravis UltraSound >>> snd_mss Microsoft Sound System >>> snd_sbc Creative Sound Blaster >>> I have a review open to add deprecation notices: >>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34604 >>> I expect to commit this in the near future, then MFC to stable >>> branches and remove these drivers from main. Please follow up if >>> there's a reason we should postpone the removal of any of these >>> drivers. >> This only hurts from a nostalgic perspective. Those GUS cards were incred= ible! >> I have a board running freebsd that has 2 GUS cards in it running >=20 > Exactly my reaction. You can tell you=E2=80=99re old when drivers are rem= oved from the tree for mainstream hardware that you never owned but wished t= hat you could afford. >=20 I=E2=80=99ll never give away my GUS classic/GF1 with full 1MB onboard RAM(!)= . It was too much fun to program and tracker/demo support was superb. Plus, r= ed PCBs felt really 1337 back then. That said (and assuming it still works), it's unlikely I would use it with a= nything else but DOS these days. Cheers Michael
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