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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Make mixer emulation configurable at
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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On 2013-08-28 18:37, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> 3. Why does CONFIG_MIXEMU exist?
>>>
>> I can post a patch for it (again) on top of these changes and 
>> see where it goes. If the default value of the "mixer" property stays
>> off, malc's concerns mentioned elsewhere in this thread will be taken 
>> care of too (I think).
> 
> I think we should default to working, fully-featured devices, because
> that's what most users want.  The few users prepared to sacrifice the
> hardware mixer in the hope of saving a few cycles can try mixer=off.

Ack. Please finally make the mixer default=on. I'm running with this
switch for 5 years now in my local config as its required for proper
audio device emulation with Musicpal e.g. I think CPUs became faster
since then, likely over-compensating the additional cycles.

Jan

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