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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 19:14 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 07:06 PM, Zhai Edwin wrote:
> > From: Zhai Edwin<edwin.zhai@intel.com>
> >
> > On qemux86, export ac97&  es1370 emulated device to guest, and enable host oss&alsa
> > driver. So end user can get sound from qemux86 guest if the sound card
> > driver installed.
> 
> Is there a reason to limit this to qemux86/x86_64?  Or are you assuming 
> they won't work on other platforms (I have vague memories of putting an 
> actual es1370 card in a powerpc platform, a long long time ago...)?  Or 
> have you confirmed elsewhere it's not supported outside these platforms? 

I think this is a case of one step at a time. Getting sound working on
any of the qemu platforms is a step forward and once we get things
working (and merged) for that, we can think about others which might be
trickier.

Cheers,

Richard