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
