On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:29:52AM +0200, David Nielsen wrote: > Breaking stuff hasn't stopped FC from making good technical decisions in > the past, if we continue to support OSS even through emulation we aren't > encouraging actually fixing stuff to use ALSA. I'm sure that base can be > fixed for 100% pure ALSA, and especially if we slim that sucker down. > > example: > 4kb kernel stacks in FC2 broke 3rd party modules for the kernel, no big > deal it was a good technical move and nvidia already fixed their driver, A better comparison would be turning off a.out support in the kernel, and the last time I checked, the Fedora kernels still had CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m. That means my nearly 11-year-old tt(*) binary still works. Breaking old binaries for no good reason is just silly. You just are *not* going to get native ALSA support in all those Loki games still floating around (as an example, which may be bogus, but you know what I mean :). (*) Tetris for Terminals. Google for it. Steve -- Steven Pritchard - K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxx http://www.kspei.com/ Phone: (618)398-7360 Mobile: (618)567-7320
