On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com> wrote: > I don't think qemu, even if though there is an opensolaris.org hosted > project to ensure it runs on OpenSolaris, should hold up removal of this > driver. > > Think about it this way, given all the OpenSolaris on metal and all the > other whole machine virtualisation solutions that are available how > important it is that qemu have sound ? Removal of this driver isn't > going to break qemu support for Solaris as a guest it just means that > qemu OpenSolaris guests after this putback won't have sound support. > > Is that really such a big deal ? > > From an architecture view I think this case is well researched and on > solid ground. The qemu sound issue if it is really that important is a > business choice not an ARC one and the value of keeping around such an > old ISA driver would need to be justified to the Solaris PAC. > > Distributions other than the binary OpenSolaris and Sun's distros are > free to hold on to this legacy driver and its support if they really > wish to. > > In my opinion this case remains closed.
I am incliined to agree. I have always used the ess1371 driver which is (to my knowledge) a PCI based audio HW. Ben
