RFC: snd_hda(4) -- Intel High Definition Audio driver

[Joel Dahl]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 04:03 +0200, Hans Nieser wrote:
> Joel Dahl wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Ariff Abdullah (ariff@) has been working on snd_hda(4) for a while now,
> > which is a High Definition Audio driver and should enable basic audio
> > capabilities on a lot of new machines on the market.  He's been busy
> > with improving the driver lately, so he asked me to send out an
> > announcement and a call for testers -- yes, the driver is ready for a
> > wider audience now.  :-)
> > 
> > This driver is based on Stephane E. Potvin's HDA driver, although big
> > parts have been rewritten since then.  The driver is still in an early
> > form and many parts needs refinements, but basic audio capabilities such
> > as playback/recording should work and we would like to get this into
> > CURRENT soon, if everything goes according to the plan.
> 
> Thanks for the work on this! Do I need to run -STABLE or -CURRENT to use
> this driver or can I use it with RELENG_6_1?

The driver has been tested on both RELENG_6 and CURRENT, so I guess
it'll work on RELENG_6_1 as well.  :-)

-- 
Joel