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From: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: The spkr driver
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Hi!

> 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...

It works on PC Engines APU devices, and together with morse, it's
very, very cool 8-}

So, please keep it and un-giant it, if possible.

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