From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jun 25 12:17:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A83537BA1A for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17405; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:14:37 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id MAA18457; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:14:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:14:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206251914.MAA18457@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: pepper@rockefeller.edu Cc: FreeBSD-doc@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <20020625183950.84012A885@guest.reppep.com> (message from Chris Pepper on Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:39:50 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: docs/39852: Handbook: treatment of KERNCONF is inconsistent. Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What? device pcm is in now part of GENERIC? If not, then anyone who wants to get sound needs to build a custom kernel at least once. Back in the 3.X pre-pcm days there were good reasons why you had to. These days, there isn't. Sort of a funny cycle of reasoning about custom kernels. The people who don't want to go through the trouble of learning about kernel configing (let's call them desktop-heads) are the very same people who like bells and whistles (aka sound). The kind of people who really don't want/need sound for their purposes (let's call them server-heads) are pretty comfortable configing kernels, and probably are interested enough in performance that they want to. OK, I admit that post touched a nerve. :) -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message