Re: Is awacs audio really not build into default kernel

Hello,

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:35:06 -0400
"David H. Gutteridge" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 at 16:58:36 +0300, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
> > Reading
> > 
> > https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.1/macppc/INSTALL.html#Supported%20devices
> > 
> > I found this passage:
> > 
> > Audio - On-board audio on most models (awacs or snapper)
> > 
> > Note: The (awacs) driver is considered ``experimental'', meaning that
> > it may cause your system to crash and/or is lacking some features you
> > may expect. Due to interrupt conflicts with some G4 models, this
> > driver is disabled by default and you will need to build a kernel with
> > it enabled.
> > 
> > ===== quote end ====
> > 
> > But at least 10.0 Generic.MP have it enabled by default, it seems.
> > Tested on qemu 9.2.90 910.0-rc0) with experimental patches. No big
> > luck with 2-way smp but sound works ..especially if I set
> > mpg123/mplayer to 11Khz :)
> > 
> > So may be this bit of info should be corrected?  
> 
> Yes, awacs(4) was enabled in GENERIC back in 2018, but the note in the
> installation documentation was never removed.
> 
> https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/macppc/conf/GENERIC?rev=1.343;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup

That quote says it all - I was waiting for feedback just in case, which
never came, and I forgot all about removing the note.

> I've removed it from the file in -current now. I'll request pullups to
> stable branches as well.

Thank you!

have fun
Michael