Support for nForce4 AC'97

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 7:24 am, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> I've seen that 4front (www.opensound.com) supports various
> HDA sound chips, including the intel ICH* and the nForce.
> However, they're only supporting FreeBSD, and I guess
> DragonFly has diverged too much from FreeBSD to be able
> to use a binary kernel module for sound.
>
> Maybe someone (Matt?) should try to talk to the 4front
> guys and ask for DragonFly support.  Or maybe we (i.e.
> the users) should ask.

Anyone can talk to them; they had a DragonFly version in late 2004, but
they seem to have dropped it - DragonFly has probably moved far enough
from FreeBSD's model (and they no longer support FreeBSD 4.x) that it was
no longer as easy to support DragonFly.