[qemu-discuss] PSARC 2008/261 EOF: Sound Blaster Pro driver sbpro

[Garrett D'Amore]

Ben Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> I don't think qemu, even if though there is an opensolaris.org hosted
>> project to ensure it runs on OpenSolaris, should hold up removal of this
>> driver.
>>
>> Think about it this way, given all the OpenSolaris on metal and all the
>> other whole machine virtualisation solutions that are available how
>> important it is that qemu have sound ?  Removal of this driver isn't
>> going to break qemu support for Solaris as a guest it just means that
>> qemu OpenSolaris guests after this putback won't have sound support.
>>
>> Is that really such a big deal ?
>>
>>  From an architecture view I think this case is well researched and on
>> solid ground.   The qemu sound issue if it is really that important is a
>> business choice not an ARC one and the value of keeping around such an
>> old ISA driver would need to be justified to the Solaris PAC.
>>
>> Distributions other than the binary OpenSolaris and Sun's distros are
>> free to hold on to this legacy driver and its support if they really
>> wish to.
>>
>> In my opinion this case remains closed.
>>     
>
> I am incliined to agree.  I have always used the ess1371 driver which
> is (to my knowledge) a PCI based audio HW.
>   

Yes.  If ess1371 is available, then it will use the audioens driver, and 
we are good to go.  (The problem is that older ess1370 - as opposed to 
ess1371 -- is not supported right now.   If it is necessary for 
virtualization -- and VMware may be a case where we need/want it --  
then we can add a driver for it when we finish the OSS project.  There 
is an OSS driver for both 1370 and 1371 hardware.)

    -- Garrett
> Ben
>