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. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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