gentoo dropping speakup support

[John covici]

As you said in your comment this will be a great step backwards -- I
was able to install gentoo on a laptop without assistance because of
speakup being built in and now that ubuntu has dropped it, this would
be no good.  How about just saying its not selectable for spark and
seeing if we can get it to work for 2.6.22 elsewhere which I am sure
Kirk is working on?  

The user space idea may be something worth considering as we no longer
get the boot messages we used to get, however this would be a much
bigger change.  Kirk is working on a git patch set which may help, but
its broke right now.


on Sunday 06/17/2007 William Hubbs(williamh at gentoo.org) wrote
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 > All,
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 > because of this bug [1], gentoo linux will be dropping support for speakup in its official kernels starting at 2.6.22.
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 > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177794
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 > Is there any possibility at all that speakup could be moved into user space as the bug suggests?  I feel that if we can go into user space this will b a better approach.
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 > Thanks,
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 > William Hubbs
 > gentoo accessibility team lead
 > williamh at gentoo.org
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