[Bug 1915878] [NEW] RM sl-modem hardware not available

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Public bug reported:

RM sl-modem hardware not available

sl-modem is a dkms module & userpsace daemon to support SmartLink
modems.

However, it appears that to the best of my knowledge all hardware
vendors of SmartLink chips, modems, or whitelabel ODMs are all out of
business at least as far back as 2005.

sl-modem also does not pass the cat-video test - it is unlikely that
even if one has sl-modem working one can open Ubuntu and watch a cat
video online.

sl-modem-daemon only builds on i386, and has no amd64 userspace support.

the kernel driver is not upstream and thus requires constant patching by
our kernel team to keep building.

I would like to:

1) remove sl-modem source and binary packages from ubuntu archive

2) remove sl-modem plugin in ubuntu-drivers-common, and thus drop
dependency on alsa-utils

** Affects: sl-modem (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Triaged

** Changed in: sl-modem (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  RM sl-modem hardware not available

Status in sl-modem package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  RM sl-modem hardware not available

  sl-modem is a dkms module & userpsace daemon to support SmartLink
  modems.

  However, it appears that to the best of my knowledge all hardware
  vendors of SmartLink chips, modems, or whitelabel ODMs are all out of
  business at least as far back as 2005.

  sl-modem also does not pass the cat-video test - it is unlikely that
  even if one has sl-modem working one can open Ubuntu and watch a cat
  video online.

  sl-modem-daemon only builds on i386, and has no amd64 userspace
  support.

  the kernel driver is not upstream and thus requires constant patching
  by our kernel team to keep building.

  I would like to:

  1) remove sl-modem source and binary packages from ubuntu archive

  2) remove sl-modem plugin in ubuntu-drivers-common, and thus drop
  dependency on alsa-utils

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