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Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

From Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss
Date 2017-05-16 09:50 +0200
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Hi Iwai-san,

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
>> > But, looking at the tree again, I noticed that ALSA isn't built yet at
>> > all for m68k.  I don't remember why it's disabled.
>> > Jaroslav, do you know the reason behind it?
>>
>> Because ALSA doesn't have any drivers that can be used on m68k platforms?
>
> But we have virtual and generic drivers (such as UART support), so
> there seems no reason to stop it.  Maybe the lack of proper MMU

It seems to date back to the move of sound from arch/*/Kconfig
to sound/Kconfig. I guess at that time there was just no use for ALSO on
m68k.

> support was the reason?  Let's try to cross-build...

Building seems to work fine...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-11 22:30 +0200
  Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-05-12 09:10 +0200
    Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-05-12 09:20 +0200
      Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-12 09:30 +0200
        Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-05-12 09:40 +0200
          Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-12 10:10 +0200
            Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-05-16 09:50 +0200
              Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-16 10:50 +0200
        Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2017-05-12 10:40 +0200
    Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-12 09:20 +0200

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