Gentoo - where's speakup been put?

[Garrett Klein]

William,

Thanks for your concise explanation. I really should get involved more
with Gentoo and/or Speakup ... is the accessibility team looking for
anymore manpower?

Garrett

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 21:22 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
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> Hi Garrett,
> 
> > How will this work for those of us who want speakup in the kernel? Are
> > we just going to have to stick with vanilla kernel.org kernels?
> 
> Until 2.6.26 comes out, that is what I suggest.  Here is why.
> 
> Putting speakup directly into the kernel requires two patches.  A patch
> to the kernel sources, and a patch to the build system.  If you try to
> run the install script from the speakup git repository, it will attempt
> to apply both patches to the kernel.  But, since the patch to the
> sources is already applied to gentoo-sources, this would be an error
> condition.
> 
> The reason this will be different with 2.6.26 is that our patche to the
> sources was accepted into the official kernel.org tree, so now we only
> will patch the build system if you want to have speakup in the kernel.
> 
> Speakup itself will not be in 2.6.26, just the hooks that make it
> possible for speakup to run.  There are still issues to work out with
> speakup before we can ask for it to be accepted into the official kernel
> tree.
> 
> Does that make sense?
> 
> - -- 
> William Hubbs
> gentoo accessibility team lead
> williamh at gentoo.org
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