** Description changed:

  In GCP images it is possible to create virtual MIDI devices and
  generally do stuff like audio routing, etc.
  
  At CircleCI, where we run many of our VMs on Ubuntu in GCP, several of
  our customers use this functionality to test audio equipment in their CI
  runs.
  
  Unfortunately they cannot run their tests on our AWS based VMs, as there
  is no sound support compiled into the kernel on the AWS kernel and
  images.
  
  See the package listings for the other kernels for, e.g. the loopback driver:
  ```
  linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-99-generic: 
/lib/modules/5.4.0-99-generic/kernel/sound/drivers/snd-aloop.ko
  linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-1031-oracle: 
/lib/modules/5.8.0-1031-oracle/kernel/sound/drivers/snd-aloop.ko
  linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-1032-gcp: 
/lib/modules/5.8.0-1032-gcp/kernel/sound/drivers/snd-aloop.ko
  ```
  
  We would love to be able to install the sound drivers (especially snd-
  aloop) with the linux-modules-extra-aws package, but currently cannot,
  and obviously do not want to start running our own kernels, as then we
  lose the immediacy of kernel patches provided upstream by Canonical.
  
  You can see the difference in the GCP:
  
https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux-gcp/+git/jammy/tree/debian.gcp/config/config.common.ubuntu#n6884
  
  and AWS kernel:
  
https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux-aws/+git/jammy/tree/debian.aws/config/config.common.ubuntu
  
- again there. The reasoning for the removal appears to be in this commit:
+ again there. The reasoning for the removal appears to be in this commit from 
2016:
  
https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux-aws/+git/jammy/commit/debian.aws/config/config.common.ubuntu?id=b5e310c4cc872c3fc7c7dd09ce67efb11eeaf07c

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