Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 23:36:54 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The spkr driver Message-ID: <59da0908-6303-77b3-9052-73623651dddf@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpTEkJHYNGs1zXnYjTA=Ng_yVXGFdyMjaOb6=wgbtYe2w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfpTEkJHYNGs1zXnYjTA=Ng_yVXGFdyMjaOb6=wgbtYe2w@mail.gmail.com>
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28.08.2020 23:25, Warner Losh wrote: > I'd like to retire the spkr driver. It was a cute hack before sound cards > were ubiquitous, but it's not been kept up to date, and it's not clear that > it still works.... It is still Giant locked, and though it's not a huge > effort to do the locking I literally have no way to test it that I trust... > > Is anybody using it these days for anything? If not, I'd propose we > de-orbit it before 13. If so, I need people to test patches to remove > Giant... spkr works just fine in my stable/11 systems. I use it for routers on modern fanless hardware to audio signalling like successfull completition of reboot (going to multi-user mode). I'd like to keep it working. I'm ready to test patches. However, my CURRENT system lives in bhyve for the moment. Though, I could try running CURRENT with one of my less important wireless AP systems built as NanoBSD, so I can build and boot CURRENT-based image.
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