relevancy of aureal-kmod today

Joel Dahl joel at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 6 17:30:03 UTC 2009


Rong-En Fan skrev:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:26:53AM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>> Rong-En Fan píše v út 06. 01. 2009 v 09:30 +0800:
>>> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:52:07PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> is my impression correct that this port (audio/aureal-kmod) never made
>>>> it past 5-CURRENT? Seems the "stray code" check will fire on 6-STABLE
>>>> and newer.
>>> I seem to recall when I commit the new rc script, I did a test on a
>>> 7-STABLE i386 box. Could you be more specific about which stray code
>>> check you are referring to?
>> In the port, these is:
>>
>> STRAYFILES=     au88x0.h au88x0.c asp10.o asp20.o asp30.o
>>
>> pre-fetch:
>> .for STRAY in ${STRAYFILES}
>> .if exists(${SRCPREFIX}/sys/dev/sound/pci/${STRAY})
>>
>> these au88x0.? files do exist on 6.4 and 7.1 releases.
> 
> I see. The au88x0 driver in sys/ never get compiled into kernel and/or
> module according to cvs history. As the homepage stated that this
> driver needs to link binary object that is distributed by a 
> bankrupted company, I think the best way to do is we remove the au88x0
> files from src/. 

I've asked des@ for permission to remove these files from src, since he 
wrote the original snd_au88x0 driver.

--
Joel


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