> 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.
