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Date:      Sat, 6 Mar 2004 21:12:48 +0100 (MET)
From:      Helge Oldach <helge.oldach@atosorigin.com>
To:        des@des.no
Cc:        mat@cnd.mcgill.ca
Subject:   Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?
Message-ID:  <200403062012.VAA15078@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzp7jxyukzu.fsf@dwp.des.no> from "des@des.no" at "Mar 6, 2004 3: 7:49 pm"

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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



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