relevancy of aureal-kmod today

[Rong-En Fan]

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/. 

Regards,
Rong-En Fan

> 
> -- 
> Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
>               <pav at FreeBSD.org>
> 
> The Novice rogue. A rather shifty individual


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