earliest possible software speech at boot?

[Janina Sajka]

I may be way off, but the only way I can think to do what he wants is to
build an initrd that holds everything necessary.

OK, that's a theoretical solution. I don't know that anyone has even
come close to such a thing. Maybe this isn't even theoretical but rather
conjectural. Kirk is correct. Software and hardware synths are not drop
in substitutes for one another. Each type has its advantages and
drawbacks.

Kirk Reiser writes:
> Um, look, if you want the benefits of a hardware synth then you need a
> hardware synth.  During a boot you can't really run any other software
> simply because the partitions haven't been loaded and you don't even
> have a writable root partition mounted at that point.
> 
> This is one of the reasons I built speech into the kernel so you can
> manipulate your system by yourself.  If you have to depend on other
> software to do that then you cannot manipulate your system by
> yourself.
> 
> At this point in time there are no software synths which will either
> fit into the kernel or operate in the kernel because of floating point
> restrictions.  If someone wants to write one we will all be grateful.
> Until then buy a hardware synth if you need it early.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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