Subject: Re: SB Live!
To: Jeff Flowers <jeff@jeffreyf.net>
From: Dave Burgess <burgess@mitre.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/09/2002 08:49:05
Jeff Flowers wrote:

> >From looking at the NetBSD documentation, it would appear that NetBSD would
> support my 1.5Ghz P4 system really well with just one exception: my SBLive
> (EMU) soundcard. I know that Current supports it but I really would prefer
> not to run Current.
>
> Is there a way that I could get just the SBLive code and compile it into the
> 1.5.2 kernel?

That sounds like a lot of work.

> Or could I even run the Current kernel and leave the rest of a
> 1.5.2 system intact?

Yes, this is easy to do.  I do it all the time.  The only place you might run
into problems is the kernel interface programs, which may grouse about the
kernel and the utilities not being the same version.

>
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Jeff Flowers