On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:50:18AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 2019-01-23 10:36, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:27:48AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > >> On 2019-01-23 09:00, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > >>> > >>> This is RfC because we might look at the ordering. On linux we probably > >>> want prefer alsa over oss. > >> Yes, please! I've run into the trap a couple of times already: OSS > >> headers were available, but these days the OSS compatibility kernel > >> modules are not loaded anymore by default. So you compile QEMU with OSS > >> support and then wonder why you do not get any audio output at all... > >> > >> IMHO we should put OSS as last item in the list on Linux nowadays. > > > > Given our targetted platform list[1], are there even any platforms > > where we would *not* have alsa, but still have OSS ? If not, then > > we could just drop the OSS driver entirely on the ground that it is > > obsolete. > > We likely could drop OSS on Linux, but it is still required on FreeBSD > and NetBSD, isn't it? So unless we can drop it there, too, we can also > simply keep it as last option in the list on Linux as well.
Ah ok, I didn't realize that BSD implemneted the OSS subsystem too. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
