The following reply was made to PR kern/29245; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Charles M. Hannum" <abuse@spamalicious.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/29245: Fix to make audio work on Alpha PWS
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:57:22 +0000

 On Saturday 05 February 2005 14:05, Rhialto wrote:
 >  Audio never worked on Alpha PWS (Miata) machines.
 >  Then around 10 januari I found a patch that made it work.
 >  I tried to find the originator to confirm it to hir but I must
 >  have lost the original message; I can't find it anymore.
 >  There is no sign of a similar patch in gnats that I can find,
 >  hence this pr to keep the information.
 
 This patch is definitely not correct in general.  It will break full-duplex 
 mode on chips that support it.
 
 Is the problem here that the ESS chip is only getting assigned one DRQ or one 
 IRQ?