Cc: mainainters for "Overall Audio backends" Peter Maydell <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2026 at 12:44, Markus Armbruster <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I stumbled over ARM machine musicpal, PPC machines pegasos1, pegasos2, >> and MIPS machine fuloong2e crashes. >> >> I run them like this: >> >> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M musicpal -nodefaults -S -display none -monitor stdio > >> Died when device_set_realized() tried to propagate a "no default audio >> driver available" error to &error_abort. > > Is this something we want to have be a possibility the devices > have to cope with? Can we have the "ignores all audio data" > backend be always available instead? There's plenty of precedence for /dev/null-like backends. > Otherwise every audio device needs to cope with "there is no > audio backend available" and implement "do nothing with the > audio data" itself. Yes.
