new HDA driver and 6.2?

[Julian Elischer]

Ariff Abdullah wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:45:06 -0800
> Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
>> Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>>> Quoting Ariff Abdullah <ariff at FreeBSD.org> (from Tue, 7 Nov 2006 
>>> 17:18:09 +0800):
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:39:26 -0800
>>>> Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
>>>>> Will the HD driver be MFC'd before or after 6.2?
>>>>>
>>>> I couldn't tell yet. How about voting for this?
>>> Is it ready already? I thought there's a lot missing (recording?).
>>> I  would expect a lot of support mails appearing for the not
>>> working parts  (more than we get for "no HDA support, please
>>> help").
> Nothing missing. Recording works just fine. The only problem is with
> specific recording source (mic/line) and that only represent 5% of
> all working hda out there. On most codecs (conexant, most adxxxx,
> alcxxx, most stac), everything works as expected.
> 
>> I guess that's the big question..
>>
> 
> My take is, this driver won't make its way into RELENG_6 at all.

I'll push for having it in as soon as possible even 6.2, if it
doesn't change the other drivers.

If there are further changes to the framework then they can happen after 6.2

> 
> 
> --
> Ariff Abdullah
> FreeBSD
> 
> ... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced
>     and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........