svn commit: r229981 - in head/sys: conf dev/sound/pci gnu/dev/sound/pci modules/sound/driver/emu10kx

[Pedro Giffuni]

Hello;

--- Gio 12/1/12, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> ha scritto:

> Da: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
> Oggetto: Re: svn commit: r229981 - in head/sys: conf dev/sound/pci gnu/dev/sound/pci modules/sound/driver/emu10kx
> A: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg at freebsd.org>
> Cc: src-committers at freebsd.org, svn-src-all at freebsd.org, svn-src-head at freebsd.org, joel at freebsd.org
> Data: Giovedì 12 gennaio 2012, 07:43
> On Wednesday, January 11, 2012
> 4:17:14 pm Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> > Author: pfg
> > Date: Wed Jan 11 21:17:14 2012
> > New Revision: 229981
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229981
> >
...   
> >   The emu10kx driver is now free from the GPL.
> >   
> >   PR:        153901
> >   Tested by:    mav, joel
> >   Approved by:    jhb (mentor)
> >   MFC after:    2 weeks
> 
> Is the emu10kx driver a superset of em10k1 now (meaning
> does it support all
> the em10k1 devices and should em10k1 be retired)?
> 

Both device drivers seem to have diverged significantly
and while emu10kx seems to be superior, some people still
have problems with it:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201201100024.q0A0OF24069073

so I suggest we keep both at least for a while.

> Also, it seems we should definitely add 'snd_emu10kx' to
> GENERIC on x86 and possible 'snd_emu10k1'.
> 

+1

Pedro.