speakup in gentoo, and speakup coming back to SystemRescueCD

[Nick G]

Hey, if htis works, it'd be interesting to see the Gentoo Live CD built in 
much the same way.
Thanks,
Nick
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 5:04 PM
Subject: speakup in gentoo, and speakup coming back to SystemRescueCD


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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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