Re: Let's remove some deprecated stuff

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 05:05:35PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 4/29/21 3:46 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> > Hmm.  Not so easy I suspect.  While most sound cards map to a single
> > device there are exceptions.  pcspk is build-in and hda is two devices.
> 
> What do you mean by "pcspk is build-in"?
> 
> Do you mean "the 'pcspk' audiodev is build in the 8254 PIT device"?
> (see pcspk_audio_init).

built-in == "the device is there, no matter what".  Being part of 8254
PIT is the underlying technical reason for that.  The only thing you can
do when configuring qemu is assigning an audio backend to it (or not).

take care,
  Gerd