On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:52:31AM -0500, Mitt Green wrote:
> Frankly, I don't understand, why Open Sound System
> option is marked DEPRECATED in menuconfig.

Have you looked what hardware does it support?

# --- OSS sound modules
# [ ]   Verbose initialisation
# [ ]   Persistent DMA buffers
# < >   Loopback MIDI device support
# < >   MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro support
# < >   Microsoft Sound System support
# < >   MPU-401 support (NOT for SB16)
# < >   ProAudioSpectrum 16 support
# < >   PSS (AD1848, ADSP-2115, ESC614) support
# < >   100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64, ESS, Jazz16) support
# < >   Yamaha FM synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support
# < >   6850 UART support
# < >   Gallant Audio Cards (SC-6000 and SC-6600 based)

I see not a single piece of hardware from this millenium.

Thus, OSS is not just obsolete, it's historic.


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