On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:52:31AM -0500, Mitt Green wrote:
> Frankly, I don't understand, why Open Sound System
> option is marked DEPRECATED in menuconfig.

Have you looked what hardware does it support?

# --- OSS sound modules
# [ ] Verbose initialisation
# [ ] Persistent DMA buffers
# < > Loopback MIDI device support
# < > MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro support
# < > Microsoft Sound System support
# < > MPU-401 support (NOT for SB16)
# < > ProAudioSpectrum 16 support
# < > PSS (AD1848, ADSP-2115, ESC614) support
# < > 100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64, ESS, Jazz16) support
# < > Yamaha FM synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support
# < > 6850 UART support
# < > Gallant Audio Cards (SC-6000 and SC-6600 based)

I see not a single piece of hardware from this millenium.

Thus, OSS is not just obsolete, it's historic.


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