freebsd stable - Aug 2020 - The spkr driver

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.

> On Aug 28, 2020, at 12:36 PM, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net>
wrote:
> 
> 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).
Is this what pfsense/opnsense uses for the ?booting complete? signal as well?

If so, it?s very handy.

Charles
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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