From owner-freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Fri Aug 28 16:37:41 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603E23B6C7F; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:37:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markm@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gromit.grondar.org (gromit.grondar.org [IPv6:2a01:348:e::1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BdQHm5hwpz3Zj7; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:37:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markm@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [2a02:8011:300b:42:8862:e368:367e:1670] by gromit.grondar.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1kBhNb-0001Vy-3e; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:37:31 +0100 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_F9971126-A57E-43BB-BBF3-D6F741663BC8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.4 \(3608.120.23.2.1\)) Subject: Re: The spkr driver From: Mark Murray In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:37:30 +0100 Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" , FreeBSD Current , FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Message-Id: References: To: Warner Losh X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.120.23.2.1) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BdQHm5hwpz3Zj7 X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.00 / 15.00]; ASN(0.00)[asn:39326, ipnet:2a01:348::/32, country:GB]; local_wl_from(0.00)[FreeBSD.org] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:37:41 -0000 --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 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--