Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Audio backend cleanup

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Di, 2015-06-02 at 14:42 +0200, François Revol wrote:
> On 02/06/2015 13:40, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > Yes, that's true.  As long as the native version actually works.
> > As I said before, initially it didn't, and sdl was the only
> > driver that worked.  Maybe in 0.12, maybe even before, I don't
> > remember anymore, but the fact remains, in our testing only
> > sdl was more or less adequate, maybe due to pure luck or
> > phase of moon. Later native drivers started working, so we
> > started using native driver which is default to the OS, which
> > is pulseaudio (installed on all desktop environments) or,
> > failing that, alsa (native to linux).
> 
> 
> Btw, please consider that ports to new host platforms really benefit
> from SDL for those things. For example we've been using SDL for the
> Haiku port until last year:
> 
> http://bb.haikuports.org/haikuports/commits/df441da15a7c4a5583f6460de2ca1d570d0caee1
> 
> All other backends are either *nix only like OSS (Haiku has an OSS port
> but only uses its drivers, the API is not made public), or even
> Linux-only like PA or ALSA. There are more OSes out there than just
> GNU/Linux :p
> 
> It's already hard enough to get stuff upstream into QEMU, having to
> write native audio and graphics backends before things get usable won't
> help at all.

Ok, makes sense.

I think we should keep sdl audio then and only drop the other three
(esd, fmod, winwave).

cheers,
  Gerd