Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:37:30 +0100 From: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "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: <E84039E7-EBBA-4BA6-882E-FF3DBEAEC37C@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpTEkJHYNGs1zXnYjTA=Ng_yVXGFdyMjaOb6=wgbtYe2w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfpTEkJHYNGs1zXnYjTA=Ng_yVXGFdyMjaOb6=wgbtYe2w@mail.gmail.com>
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--Apple-Mail=_F9971126-A57E-43BB-BBF3-D6F741663BC8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > On 28 Aug 2020, at 17:25, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > Greetings, 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 does work, and de-orbiting it will break morse(6), the "-p" option in particular. Is this a great loss? I doubt it; Its a cute hack. I reckon morse could stand learning how to inject sounds into /dev/audio anyway. > 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... I could test the patches, but frankly I'd rather fix morse(6). M -- --Apple-Mail=_F9971126-A57E-43BB-BBF3-D6F741663BC8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.2 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEyzPHvybPbOpU9MCxQlsJDh9CUqAFAl9JMsoACgkQQlsJDh9C UqAIUwf+NxD95rKTQ4tvHqBuGXzlPsSb1ecKwZiloM72FpsieSUzT/aCembAxC3X Mar7udrb6RBo0DwZIE2ZfU0vlNmmx4Y839vtj8xRzArcVlbtM7Lcn3L4cp+6ErPl fkMjqKldXOiM+9WKnSlupxkbw+wT5+BdH1kLQRtCEi1Dw02ATs/3tziWj5SyaZwL NEuUmb+BAawUWh1Qdnpqf9SG6Ce230JR8a/kVmkWldZ51S1hlZ8CKdGcBiwchoJk +TfABFRBEVoVD29zAnv2IXRQIOboKJaa/gUVMexuGjUzneDTwUTpfObgLCbvRjwz yw0F+WIbZ5wka+lIaGaZ+eb/LAXeVw== =B286 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_F9971126-A57E-43BB-BBF3-D6F741663BC8--
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