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Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card
Thirty-one years after Creative Technology introduced the Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA-based sound card, the open-source driver support within the Linux kernel continues to be worked on..
Catching me by surprise a few minutes ago when looking at this week's sound fixes pull request ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc3 release was: "Fixes for legendary SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA device (a real one, we still got a bug report after 25 years)" The fixes set to be merged today for Linux 6.16 Git are for the SoundBlaster "SB" ISA driver and include force to disable DMAs when DMA mode is changed and not allow changing the DMA mode during operations. Someone at least in 2023 was working to run Fedora 39 on a Pentium P54C system with 1GB of RAM and sporting the Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 sound card.
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