At Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:37:02 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There's no auto-loading built into snd-powermac, and the way I see it > > > there's no chance there ever will be since nobody even cared years ago > > > when I worked on this stuff. > > > > Nice. BTW, would writing an auto-loading part be hard for a > > kernel-illiterate? > > snd-powermac is pretty strange, so yeah, I think it would be :-)
Indeed. It's an ancient piece of legacy code. RIP. > > > I suppose one way would be to load snd-powermac only when snd-aoa > > > didn't auto-load? > > > > Right. The way that things are currently is that snd-aoa is "force fed" > > and causes some machines to not have any kind of sound. > > Why would snd-aoa ever be "force fed"? It can and will load > automatically on all machines it supports. Am I missing something? If anything is force-fed, it can be snd-powermac, but with some modprobe magic to load snd-aoa beforehand... Takashi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/s5hocdq846i.wl%ti...@suse.de
