From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 2 3:28:25 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 03:28:23 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.abacus.co.uk (mailgate.abacus.co.uk [194.130.48.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CB937B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 03:28:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from abacus.co.uk (pcantony.bl.abacus.co.uk [194.130.48.111]) by mailgate.abacus.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA32716; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:25:26 GMT Sender: antony@mailgate.abacus.co.uk Message-ID: <3A51BB48.1C2DD42E@abacus.co.uk> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 11:28:08 +0000 From: Antony T Curtis Organization: Abacus Polar PLC (UK) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: Roman Shterenzon , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support References: <200012282317.PAA04405@spammie.svbug.com> <20010101133411.B51028@peorth.iteration.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Michael C . Wu" wrote: > "Fully functional" for a desktop implies a working sound card too. > This is one of of those things that does not really matter very much. > A good server admin will recompile and customize his kernel. > And a desktop user probably does not know how to compile a kernel. > Are you telling me that, in your consultancy, you just keep GENERIC? > > There is no need for this bikeshed. Whether pcm is included in GEERIC > or not does not really hurt anybody either way. I have successfully compiled the sound support as a lkm.... so it doesn't have to be in the Kernel. Just make the kernel modules available by default then people can use it should they choose to. -- ANTONY T CURTIS Tel: +44 (1635) 36222 Abacus Polar Holdings Ltd Fax: +44 (1635) 38670 > I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth > and they never believe me. >  -- Camillo Di Cavour To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message