PSARC 2008/261 EOF: Sound Blaster Pro driver sbpro

[Garrett D'Amore]

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 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.

I stand corrected.  qemu also emulates a PCI based SoundBlaster.   We 
may have to add support for this in our OSS work.

    -- Garrett
>
>    -- Garrett
>