Re: HEADS-UP: virtual_oss in base

Hello Tomasz,

On Tue Sep 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM CEST, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Thanks for your hard work with sound subsystem including virtual_oss.
>
> But shouldn't ports commit 9b26d309123abf0e90651298b131783ba7d9b945
> reverted or re-targetting to 16 until MFC of base virtual_oss into
> stable/15 is finished?

Good point, however I will most likely do the MFC tomorrow or the day
after tomorrow, so I do not think this will be a problem.

> Yes, we can lock audio/virtual_oss, though, but possibly some people
> overlook it.
>
> Regards.
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:44:40 +0200
> "Christos Margiolis" <christos@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> As of 9cab9fde5eda ("virtual_oss: Port to base") [1], we have
>> virtual_oss in the base system. Quoting from RELNOTES [2] to avoid
>> repeating myself:
>> 
>> 	virtual_oss is imported to base. The audio/virtual_oss port will
>> 	stop being built from FreeBSD 15.0 onwards.
>> 
>> 	Regarding user-facing changes, the only practical difference is
>> 	the installation process. Everything is provided by the base
>> 	system, except for the following optional components, which can
>> 	be installed from ports:
>> 
>> 	* sndio backend support: audio/virtual_oss_sndio
>> 	* bluetooth backend support: audio/virtual_oss_bluetooth
>> 	* virtual_equalizer(8): audio/virtual_oss_equalizer
>> 
>> 	Apart from that, virtual_oss should work as expected. Users of
>> 	virtual_oss can uninstall audio/virtual_oss and instead use the
>> 	base system version from now on.
>> 
>> The commits for the ports can be found here: [3][4][5]. In the next days
>> I will also MFC virtual_oss to stable/15, so that it ships with
>> 15.0-RELEASE.
>> 
>> [1] https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=9cab9fde5edad9b409dd2317a2aec7815e6d6bed
>> [2] https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=c457acb4ee821cf015930a94f52c3870786468a7
>> [3] https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=a9bbba1949a79c419d88e64a280e56c0cc8131fc
>> [4] https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=35215c174c450b6e7dfd2490334f7887b7c24710
>> [5] https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=2dcc66e8c6c4b92a3278ea874b41e4b81ae441ed

Christos