From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EVCMa-0007Kd-1W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:20:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9RIJj4g003664; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:19:45 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9RIHo9q008058 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:17:51 GMT Received: from [83.218.6.121] (helo=dogmatix.willow.local) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EVCJy-0003kr-0Y for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:17:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Possible virtual/alsa change From: John Mylchreest To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <435D38E6.50200@gentoo.org> References: <1129573517.8881.183.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <200510172042.45438@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200510172108.55137.jkt@gentoo.org> <435CBC83.8060102@gentoo.org> <1130159467.9045.8.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <435CDF1E.2000305@gentoo.org> <1130160615.9045.17.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <435CE7F4.1000109@gentoo.org> <1130165647.9045.21.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <435CF7A7.3030603@gentoo.org> <1130167272.9045.24.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <435D38E6.50200@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:13:30 +0100 Message-Id: <1130436810.10014.30.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 99ca7922-5886-4f52-a82c-611a2e664d9b X-Archives-Hash: f4a717b0d797531b511b441b8781811c 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 :) -- Role: Gentoo Linux Kernel Lead Gentoo Linux: http://www.gentoo.org Public Key: gpg --recv-keys 9C745515 Key fingerprint: A0AF F3C8 D699 A05A EC5C 24F7 95AA 241D 9C74 5515 Web: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9C745515 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list