The spkr driver

[Johan Hendriks]

Op 28-08-2020 om 18:25 schreef Warner Losh:
> Greetings,
>
> 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...
>
> Warner
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I use the spkr driver also to get conformation if the server has booted.
I would really miss it.
I have no problem with testing patches.

regards.
Johan