On 23.01.2019 10:50, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 2019-01-23 10:36, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> 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. > > We likely could drop OSS on Linux, but it is still required on FreeBSD > and NetBSD, isn't it? So unless we can drop it there, too, we can also > simply keep it as last option in the list on Linux as well. > > Thomas >
NetBSD supports OSS compat without plans for abandoning it as it's a good enough solution for desktop applications. Porting to our native audio (SunOS) backend does not win much/anything as of now.
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