Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Possible virtual/alsa change

[John Mylchreest <johnm@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:41 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Currently, we have two machines with alsa drivers (only one of which 
> *really* works, but that is beside the point), and the working driver is 
> applied to our mips-sources-2.6.* ebuilds along with the patchset for 
> octane.  However, this information is pretty irrelevent from my point of 
> view.  The real problems are that A) alsa-driver doesn't contain any 
> mips drivers, B) 2.4 kernel sources do not contain the alsa drivers 
> while 2.6 do, and C) that mips-sources included both 2.4 and 2.6. 
> Therefore, we really do not have anything generic that can be changed to 
> the default virtual for us without being broken (until such time as we 
> can finally get rid of 2.4).  I don't have a solution at this point in 
> time either...I'm just saying how things are.

I dont see this as a real reason to not change the default personally.
mips-sources exists in the tree for a reason, and are being actively
maintained. by setting the default virtual for alsa-sound to
gentoo-sources surely wont effect you anyways, considering alsa-drivers
doesn't work, gentoo-sources likely dont work, and mips-sources provide
virtual/alsa?

If at some point alsa-drivers decides to work, then can you not just
redefine the virtual in the mips profile?

Anyways, I see no real point here to prevent the move, however I found
it educational re: alsa-driver :)

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