Re: PC Sound- In kernel ?

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@cam.ac.uk)
Tue, 14 Jan 1997 00:49:33 +0000 (GMT)


On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Leslie Donaldson wrote:

> Way back in the .8 and .9 days we talked about merging the PC-sound
> driver into the kernel so that linux would always have sound support. At
> the time it didn't happen. So last week I was once again patching my kernel to
> include this driver and thought maybe we could get it done now????

Seconded. Of course I'd like to see it running properly under SMP first,
though. It's current behaviour - obtaining the kernel lock and never
releasing it, so only one processor ever works after the first time you
play a sound - isn't quite what I expected.

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