Kernels in Debian

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:48:04AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I thought as much concerning the speakup and kernel situation.  I
> thought the 2.6.26 and later could somehow be done without having to
> build a kernel?

Yes, this is possible on 2.6.26-later, provided that you build speakup
and all synths as modules. If you want to have a synth built into the
kernel, (which is what you wanted from my understanding), then you
need to patch speakup into the kernel, and rebuild. If you're ok with
having synths and speakup main code as modules only, and if you're
running at least 2.6.26, then you don't need to patch and rebuild the kernel.

> I'm thinking of those machines or situations where one
> could sit down at the computer and drop in speakup without modifying
> the kernel on that machine.  Are we not quite there yet?  I think it
> would be really cool if one could slap Speakup modules on a thunb
> drive or something and boot a linux machine that is being visitted and
> have the speakup modules loaded from the USB device with a mere boot
> parameter or something like that.  This would be similar to the U3
> implementations in windows or the Screen reader on a stick concempt.

As John pointed out, you need to have modules compiled against the
running kernel, so no, we're not there yet. I'd say the best
suggestion for what you're suggesting is a livecd, but that wouldn't
cover all possibilities either, (I.E. you can't reboot the machine
you're sitting in front of, or can't boot it off the cd drive).

Greg


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