linux-kernel - Re: PC speaker

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706121926180.19578@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:26:42 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	"R.F. Burns" <burnsrf@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PC speaker

On Jun 12 2007 16:19, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> >I'd say impossible. Just disconnect it from the motherboard.
>> 
>> The days when hardware *relied* on software (hence, where software
>> could damage hardware) are over.
>
>Nice theory but you can destroy or render useless a fair amount of PC
>hardware via software, usually because the thing is *DESIGNED* that way
>for convenience. (Flash update interfaces without jumpers, locking
>interfaces for drives etc)

Let's just say the PC speaker was not designed to be proactively be destroyed.

	Jan
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