On 23.01.2019 11:12, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > 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 >
OSS is the portable UNIX audio backend. We could point some flaws in it, but it's a good enough for portable UNIX applications. The question is what UNIX-like desktop OS does not implement it or removed it.
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