On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 06:33:04PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > From: Scott Cheloha <scottchel...@gmail.com> > > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 11:13:19 -0500 > > > > > On Apr 29, 2022, at 09:33, Angelo <ang...@seeinthedark.net> 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. >
I forgot to specify the system. Yes, it's PC Engines apu system boards in my case.
