> From: Scott Cheloha <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 11:13:19 -0500
> 
> > On Apr 29, 2022, at 09:33, Angelo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello
> > 
> >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 06:34:00AM -0500, Scott Cheloha 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.
> > 
> > If this patch is applied, I can probably no longer do something like
> > this?
> > 
> >    $ echo -n 'L30cbdcbdcbdP2cbdcbdcbd' > /dev/speaker
> > 
> > If that's the case, then it would be good if we can keep speaker(4).
> > I have multiple headless systems at home which start to beep under
> > certain conditions, to alert me.
> 
> This is a perfectly valid use case. Crude, but
> absent a real audio device you're just using
> what you've got.
> 
> If the systems in question have *no* other
> audio output then I am less inclined to
> remove it.

No "proper" audio on those pc engines apu systems.  So lets keep it.

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