> On Aug 28, 2020, at 12:36 PM, Eugene Grosbein <[email protected]> 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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