Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:08:35 +0100
> From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl at ulyssis.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:58:26 +0100 (MET), Helge Oldach wrote:
> 
> > So yes: some machines require a kernel with PNPBIOS even when sound
> > modules can be kldload'ed. I presume these are typically boxen without
> > knob to disable the PnP BIOS.
> > 
> > Still I wonder whether sound on -CURRENT will do on such a box...
> 
> I have an old toshiba which also needs PNPBIOS in 4-STABLE and
> when I tried 5-CURRENT sound just worked. Of course that doesn't say
> anything about your setup...

That is almost certainly because of ACPI. It handles peripheral devices
quite differently from the former mode and, if it works at all on a
given system, should eliminate this Plug-n-Play mess when 5 goes STABLE!