Re: Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound

On Mon Jul 20, 2026 at 3:04 PM EEST, np wrote:
> Hi, afaik there is a hudge rework of the sound subsystem in progress, spo=
nsored by the FreeBSD foundation. But this should have been merged in one c=
ommit and not in small steps, because changes seem deep.

This is a gradual work so it cannot be all committed in a massive
commit. Our philosophy is to commit simple, self-contained patches so
that it is easy to review them and also reference or revert specific
changes.

> I personally fix the MIDI part so that it is working on FreeBSD 13.x, but=
 I don't know what changes will be merged/have been merged because the rewo=
rk is now massive.
>
> At worst, waiting until this job is achieved, you can take the code under=
 sys/sound from FreeBSD 13.x and use it under 15.0, with minor tweaks in th=
e source tree.

Feel free to propose any patches whenever you want! :-)

Christos