PSARC 2008/261 EOF: Sound Blaster Pro driver sbpro

[Garrett D'Amore]

FYI, I've opened this case up.  There is nothing confidential about what 
we are doing here, although the actual driver itself is closed source.

This is a fast-track (one pager submitted for it, not sure why), I've 
set the timeout for it to 5/23/2008 (or 2008-23-05 if you prefer :-)

Rather than repost the entire one pager here, I'm going to just state 
that the project seeks minor binding to remove the sbpro driver, which 
was an audio driver supporting older SoundBlaster Pro, SoundBlaster 16, 
and SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA cards.  Its unlikely that any systems with 
such hardware in them are even capable of running Solaris Nevada (or 
OpenSolaris), and the cards themselves have not been manufactured in a 
long time.

This driver does not support more modern commodity PCI designs.

Notably, 4Front's OSS dropped support for these cards a long time ago.

A release note will be published in the next Solaris 10 update  (S10u6) 
accordingly.

    -- Garrett