From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 14:28:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38FB16A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:28:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C893343D31 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 1266 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2004 22:28:15 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Mar 2004 22:28:15 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i25MS829003080; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:28:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:49:45 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040303163157.3440f8cb.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20040303163157.3440f8cb.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403051446.38592.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: Jorn Argelo cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: Randy Pratt Subject: Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 22:28:16 -0000 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. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org