From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
"Brad Smith" <brad@comstyle.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] [RfC] audio: probe audio drivers by default
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:36:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190123093657.GC27270@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484e921f-7cee-755d-12a9-02e8bf182fa4@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:27:48AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 2019-01-23 09:00, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >
> > This is RfC because we might look at the ordering. On linux we probably
> > want prefer alsa over oss.
> Yes, please! I've run into the trap a couple of times already: OSS
> headers were available, but these days the OSS compatibility kernel
> modules are not loaded anymore by default. So you compile QEMU with OSS
> support and then wonder why you do not get any audio output at all...
>
> IMHO we should put OSS as last item in the list on Linux nowadays.
Given our targetted platform list[1], are there even any platforms
where we would *not* have alsa, but still have OSS ? If not, then
we could just drop the OSS driver entirely on the ground that it is
obsolete.
Regards,
Daniel
[1] https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Supported-build-platforms
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-23 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-23 8:00 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] audio: rework driver probing Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 8:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] audio: use pkg-config Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 8:30 ` Thomas Huth
2019-01-23 8:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] audio: allow optional audio drivers Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 8:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] audio: use try-sdl and try-pa for openbsd Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 8:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] [RfC] audio: probe audio drivers by default Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 8:27 ` Thomas Huth
2019-01-23 9:36 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2019-01-23 9:50 ` Thomas Huth
2019-01-23 10:12 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-23 10:36 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 10:59 ` Peter Maydell
2019-01-23 11:10 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 11:16 ` Peter Maydell
2019-01-23 11:30 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 12:20 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 12:45 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 13:59 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 14:45 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 14:54 ` Brad Smith
2019-01-23 15:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 15:20 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-24 6:38 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-24 6:51 ` Thomas Huth
2019-01-24 10:06 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 10:16 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 10:24 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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