Re: [Qemu-devel] Patch: allow Solaris to use OSS (OpenSound)

[malc]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Ben Taylor wrote:

[..snip..]

> > From where i stand SDL as the default is a bad idea.
>
> Solaris without OSS audio doesn't have any other options.
> There is no ALSA, and AFAIK, there isn't an fmod either.
>
> However, I still think it is probably a good idea to have the
> QEMU_SDL_AUDIO device default to the audio subsystem
> that is defined (or defaulted to).  Thoughts?

I'm somewhat lost, there's no QEMU_SDL_AUDIO, furthermore there's
no way to tell SDL what subsystem to use other than setting the
environment variable.

And to reiterate the point: NetBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris do not
have full fledged OSS, they provide a wrapper that implements
some basic functionality. The native thing for them is SUN audio[1]
(more or less). And there's no QEMU driver for that. Options for
those system include: OSS wrapper provided with the system, 4Front
drivers and SDL (if it can use /dev/audio at all).

Only 4Front's solution will allow DAC/ADC because it is basically
full blown OSS implementation. Unless, ofcourse, native `/dev/audio'
QEMU driver is written.

[1] http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-0222/6m6nmlssf?q=audio&a=view

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vale