On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:27:48AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 2019-01-23 09:00, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > > This is RfC because we might look at the ordering. On linux we probably > > want prefer alsa over oss. > Yes, please! I've run into the trap a couple of times already: OSS > headers were available, but these days the OSS compatibility kernel > modules are not loaded anymore by default. So you compile QEMU with OSS > support and then wonder why you do not get any audio output at all... > > IMHO we should put OSS as last item in the list on Linux nowadays.
Given our targetted platform list[1], are there even any platforms where we would *not* have alsa, but still have OSS ? If not, then we could just drop the OSS driver entirely on the ground that it is obsolete. Regards, Daniel [1] https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Supported-build-platforms -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
