rfc: speakup supported kernels

Bill Cox waywardgeek at gmail.com
Thu Jun 24 15:57:16 EDT 2010


I guess I'm more worried about speakup not being supported in trunk of
the current mainline kernel, nor in Ubuntu Maverick's current kernel.
Should we say speakup only supports kernels prior to some number?

Bill

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:37 PM, William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> our documentation states that speakup supports kernels 2.6.18 and later.
> I doubt that this is correct any longer, so I wanted to bring this to
> the list and figure out which versions of the kernel we want to try to
> support.
>
> I would suggest 2.6.26 and later, because from that point on if someone
> wants to build speakup into the kernel, we modify the build system to do
> that, but we do not change any of the kernel source itself.
>
> Does anyone know if kernel versions older than 2.6.26 are being used
> these days?  Do we still need speakup support for those older kernels?
>
> Any input on this would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> William
>
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