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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:42:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      opentrax@email.com
To:        keichii@peorth.iteration.net
Cc:        roman@harmonic.co.il, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support
Message-ID:  <200101151842.KAA00407@spammie.svbug.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010101133411.B51028@peorth.iteration.net>

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On  1 Jan, Michael C . Wu wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 12:09:30PM +0200, Roman Shterenzon scribbled:
> | On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 opentrax@email.com wrote:
> | > On 28 Dec, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> | > > Having been hit by this today, how about MFCing the following change?
> | > > 
> | > >   revision 1.289
> | > >   date: 2000/11/14 01:11:13;  author: jkh;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -1
> | > >   In the year 2000, I think it's perfectly reasonable to include audio
> | > >   support by default in GENERIC.
> | > > 
> | > I can't answer for JKH or others but audio has had a history
> | > of problems, especially durning the boot-up probe stage.
> | > Problems such that it might lock up the machine under
> | > certain conditions. Perhaps this is the reason sound may
> | > never make it into GENERIC.
> 
> I do not recall ever having such trouble with newpcm, nor 
> has newpcm been troublesome for people.  If newpcm
> does not probe, the boot process continues on.  There is no 
> "probe problem."
> 
> JMJr: Stop spreading baseless, false information like this, please.
>  
What the hell are you talking about?
I've never said such a thing.
But for the record, putting sound in GENERIC is not a good idea. :-)





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