> On Apr 29, 2022, at 10:40, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 28 2022, Scott Cheloha <[email protected]> wrote: >> speaker(4) is a whimsical thing, but I don't think we should have a >> dedicated chiptune interpreter in the kernel. > >> This patch unhooks the driver and the manpage from the build. The >> driver is built for alpha, amd64, and i386. >> >> A subsequent patch will move all relevant files to the attic and clean >> up manpage cross references. >> >> Nothing in base or xenocara includes <dev/spkrio.h>. >> >> I see a couple SPKRTONE and SPKRTUNE symbols in ports, but I imagine >> those ports don't use the symbols if they are missing. >> >> ok? > > People seem to find this useful, for real world use cases. Is there > a technical reason to delete it besides "this doesn't belong here"?
We're often looking for ways to shrink the kernel. The code is a bit dusty. I guess if the SPKRTUNE interpreter were in userspace I would be a lot happier, but that seems unlikely at this late date.
