On Do, 2015-05-21 at 00:05 +0200, Kővágó Zoltán wrote: > Here are the drivers that could go in my opinion: > esd: no longer maintained, last release in 2008, replaced by PulseAudio > fmod: not sure about this one, but apparently it's some no longer > developed library that's also proprietary. > sdl: is broken > (http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-05/msg02198.html), > and we have native drivers for almost all platforms > winwave: DirectSound should be a superior choice on windows (even though > it's also deprecated)
Looks all reasonable to me. If someone has objections and/or used any of these backends recently please speak up now. When preparing patches to drop them please create one patch per backend. That way we can bring back a single backend -- should the need arise -- using 'git revert'. > alsa needed on Linux, oss on BSDs, coreaudio on Mac, dsound on Windows; > spice and pa are also needed. wav is probably useful for debugging. For completeness: The 'none' dummy backend needs to stay too. cheers, Gerd