Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] [RfC] audio: probe audio drivers by default

[Kamil Rytarowski]

On 24.01.2019 07:38, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>>> https://xkcd.com/927/
>>
>> There is a different context on BSD than on Linux. We can choose one
>> solution and switch to it literally all the software keeping everything
>> in a single ports tree.
>>
>> This is what happened on OpenBSD.
>>
>> The result is that almost everything uses sndio, and pulseaudio is far
>> behind in adoption in any distro.
> 
> I'm not going to join the sndio vs. pulse discussion.
> 
> But from a maintenance point of view it sucks big time to have a bunch
> of ways to play sound, and everybody uses a different one so you have to
> maintain a backend for each of those methods.
> 
> Maybe we should outsource that problem.  Write a gstreamer backend, then
> delete oss/alsa/sdl/pulse/whatever backends and let gstreamer handle
> that mess ...
> 

Just please leave it to OS maintainers.

There is no fragmentation in BSD distributions so sndio isn't different
to native sound system on Darwin or Windows and I see no complains that
Windows does not adapt PulseAudio. (Probably the only practical
difference is BSD being open-source.)

> cheers,
>   Gerd
>

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