svn commit: r229430 - in head/sys: conf dev/sound/pci modules/sound/driver/emu10k1

[Garrett Cooper]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> --- Mar 3/1/12, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> ha scritto:
> ...
>> On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:04:54
>> pm Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
>> > Author: pfg
>> > Date: Tue Jan  3 21:04:54 2012
>> > New Revision: 229430
>> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229430
>> >
>> > Log:
>> >   Replace a GPL'd header in the emu10k1
>> snd driver code.
>> >
>> >   This brings in the emuxkireg.h from
>> NetBSD (dev/pci) which
>> >   is used for the same purpose but is
>> smaller. The emu10k1
>> >   is now free from the GPL.
>>
>> Is this a common-enough chipset to enable in GENERIC now
>> that it is safe to do so?
>>
>
> It's probably very common in PC emulators so it will be
> important to MFC into stable.
>
> FWIW, two other cards (maestro3 and csaimg) are based on
> headers from OSS that are now under a BSD license.
>
> The maestro3 is done (kern/153920) and is next in my
> list but it's getting difficult to find testers for
> this old stuff.

Can the same be done for emu10kx ?

Someday it would be nice to have xfi support in the tree, but that's a
missing driver that even the OSS maintainer was scared to touch
because of the complexity of the code.

Thanks!
-Garrett