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Dan Nelson writes:
> In the last episode (Aug 13), Julian Elischer said:
> > Well I'm not too happy about this..
> > 
> > It's the only audio I have on my TI-810 laptop. That is however not
> > running -current yet.
> > 
> > I'm also not pleased from the perspective that this is the only major
> > example in the tree of how to use the clock-speedup code in
> > i386/isa/clock.c. A very nice piece of functionality I use quite
> > often.
> 
> It's also handy if you don't have external speakers hooked up to a
> machine, and want something better than beeps.

Would it be a useful exercise for the minority(?) of users who use this
driver to either see if it can be effectively newbussed or turned into
a port or both?

I see considerable scope for an infrastructure that would allow drivers
to be ports. _Easily_.

M
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Mark Murray
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