Re: Is awacs audio really not build into default kernel

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

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

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

Regards,

Dave