Speakup and Kernel-2.6.12:

[Dawes, Stephen]

Thanks for the update.



Steve Dawes
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Kirk Reiser
> Sent: 2005 July 07 12:14 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Speakup and Kernel-2.6.12:
> 
> Hi Steve:  I have to apologize because I was waiting to hear 
> from Bill before making a general announcement.  I have not 
> heard from him so I will assume temporarily that all went 
> well with his last patches and retract it later if necessary.
> 
> I have had to make major modifications to speakup to suit the 
> 2.6.12 kernel release.  The kernel console developers changed 
> the basic structure of the console code to consolidate most 
> of the virtual console attributes into one array of pointers 
> and attributes.  I believe the changes were good overall but 
> had to do a lot of reconfiguring to get speakup compliant.  
> Truthfully, I think speakup still needs some major changes 
> itself to properly utilize the kernel modifications.  
> Hopefully I will find some time to work on that before too long.
> 
> To make all these changes means that speakup in cvs is no 
> longer compatible with kernel versions before 2.6.12 including 2.4.xx.
> Therefore for anyone needing to patch kernels before 2.6.12 
> it will be necessary to use the speakup-2.0.tar.gz tarball 
> from the linux-speakup.org ftp area.
> 
> Well, that's basically it from me.  Bill may have more to add 
> for Fedora fans specifically, I don't know.  I imagine he 
> will have new Fedora disks available as soon as he recovers 
> from the A.C.B. convention.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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> Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
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