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

[Ben Taylor]

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.

Ben