The spkr driver

[Eugene Grosbein]

28.08.2020 23:25, Warner Losh wrote:

> 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...

spkr works just fine in my stable/11 systems. I use it for routers on modern fanless hardware
to audio signalling like successfull completition of reboot (going to multi-user mode).

I'd like to keep it working. I'm ready to test patches. However, my CURRENT system lives in bhyve for the moment.
Though, I could try running CURRENT with one of my less important wireless AP systems built as NanoBSD,
so I can build and boot CURRENT-based image.