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On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:41 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> Currently, we have two machines with alsa drivers (only one of which |
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> *really* works, but that is beside the point), and the working driver is |
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> applied to our mips-sources-2.6.* ebuilds along with the patchset for |
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> octane. However, this information is pretty irrelevent from my point of |
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> view. The real problems are that A) alsa-driver doesn't contain any |
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> mips drivers, B) 2.4 kernel sources do not contain the alsa drivers |
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> while 2.6 do, and C) that mips-sources included both 2.4 and 2.6. |
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> Therefore, we really do not have anything generic that can be changed to |
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> the default virtual for us without being broken (until such time as we |
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> can finally get rid of 2.4). I don't have a solution at this point in |
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> time either...I'm just saying how things are. |
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I dont see this as a real reason to not change the default personally. |
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mips-sources exists in the tree for a reason, and are being actively |
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maintained. by setting the default virtual for alsa-sound to |
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gentoo-sources surely wont effect you anyways, considering alsa-drivers |
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doesn't work, gentoo-sources likely dont work, and mips-sources provide |
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virtual/alsa? |
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If at some point alsa-drivers decides to work, then can you not just |
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redefine the virtual in the mips profile? |
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Anyways, I see no real point here to prevent the move, however I found |
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it educational re: alsa-driver :) |
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