PSARC 2008/261 EOF: Sound Blaster Pro driver sbpro

[Garrett D'Amore]

Stephen Hahn wrote:
> * Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at SUN.COM> [2008-05-17 00:32]:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
>   The only question I have about old drivers--having had pcn sneak up on
>   me when I wasn't looking--is "do any of the well-known virtualized x86
>   platforms emulate this hardware?".
>
>   - Stephen
>
>   
Good question.   I hadn't thought about this until you brought it up.

VirtualBox emulates an Intel AC'97.  VMWare supports the AudioPCI from 
Creative -- we don't have support for it today anyway.

qemu is going to be a problem.  It emulates a SoundBlaster 16.  :-(

Not sure if that's going to be a problem or not.

    -- Garrett