speakup in gentoo, and speakup coming back to SystemRescueCD

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Mon Jul 7 17:04:30 EDT 2008


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Hi all.

I'm working with Francois to bring speakup back into current versions
of SystemRescueCD. Due to speakup's bleeding edge status now, Francois
wants to build speakup outside the kernel, so as to not effect those
who don't need to use speakup. What we've decided on doing is to
accept boot parameters as if speakup was in the kernel, and load
required modules based on the boot parameters given,
(I.E. speakup.synth=bns at the isolinux boot prompt would modprobe the
speakup_bns.ko module with the start=1 flag from within the initrd
image). The advantage to this approach is that speakup will not be in
the kernel at all, you will still get speech during the initrd stage,
before the cd itself starts loading up, and invoking speakup via boot
parameters now means a seamless switch-over should speakup again be
built into the kernel one day.

Sysresccd is built on a gentoo system, and Francois will be doing the
building. I assume he'll provide me a beta iso to test, before making
the official release. I am assuming he's better off emerging speakup
from gentoo, instead of from git? If this is correct, then I plan to
provide him with a link to William's message on this:

http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup/2008-April/046047.html

. If something has changed regarding gentoo and speakup since that
message, then could someone using gentoo please kindly describe any
changes since that message, in such a way so as to allow someone who
is not himself a speakup user to emerge and build speakup
successfully? If he's better off using git instead of the gentoo
repos, I'll let him know to do that instead. Thanks for any help in
advance.

Greg

				   
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