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Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?
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des@des.no:
>Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> writes:
>> I have an old toshiba which also needs PNPBIOS in 4-STABLE and
>> when I tried 5-CURRENT sound just worked. Of course that doesn't say
>> anything about your setup...
>
>PNPBIOS is on by default (and non-optional) in 5.x.

That's great, so my peculiar Compaq Deskpro EN scenario should be fine
as well. I will try a FreeSBIE boot anyway to verify.

BTW, why not make PNPBIOS on by default in 4-STABLE? Is this a "danger
of breaking things, aka POLA violation" against "prepare for 5.x
upgrade" case?

Helge