On Thu May  8 01:57:57 EDT 2014, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > would be nice to put all the hardware support together.
> 
> That would be wonderful.  But it does require resources to deal with
> incompatibilities as well as different perception of value.  My angle
> her is that I'm mostly working with obsolete equiopment and I am
> extremely reluctant to watch Plan 9 drop support for the hardware I
> have in favour of hardware I cannot afford.
> 
> I can see how one would approach this problem in a fair manner, but I
> appreciate that the cost would be higher.  For example, I'm using AC97
> audio on this workstation, after putting some trouble into fitting it
> into the Bell Labs distribution (nothing much, in fact, still...).
> Now, this is incompatible with the original Soundblaster stuff and no
> one seems to care to deal with the incompatibilities.  That's where
> the community needs to be encouraged to take on low-benefit projects.
> 

; lc /sys/src/9/pc/audio*
audioac97.c     audioac97m.c    audiohda.c      audiosb16.c

- erik

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