From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 14:59:30 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 51AF716A4CE; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:59:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45F9943D2D; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:59:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rpratt1950@earthlink.net) Received: from user167.net971.fl.sprint-hsd.net ([69.34.136.167] helo=kt.weeble.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AzOHx-00054s-00; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 14:59:29 -0800 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:59:38 -0500 From: Randy Pratt To: John Baldwin Message-Id: <20040305175938.3a5f8d31.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200403051446.38592.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20040303163157.3440f8cb.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> <200403051446.38592.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 04:54:47 -0800 cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org cc: stable@freebsd.org 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 22:59:30 -0000 On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:49:45 -0500 John Baldwin wrote: > 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. That being the case, then there's no reason not to have it in GENERIC in 5.x. Anyone that doesn't want/need it will be recompiling the kernel to remove other unused options. The less new (desktop) users have to do to get up and running is probably a good thing to do. Any concern I had is gone. Best regards, Randy --