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[Mike Ray]

Hello Kirk,

First of all thanks for a great screen-reader.  Dependable when 
everything else turns to dust.

And thanks for clearing up the status of things as they are currently.

Until I came to the Raspberry Pi I had no reason to touch kernel 
development or debugging at all but as Linus said in an interview with 
the BBC; 'the Raspberry Pi makes falure affordable'.  It certainly makes 
it possible for me to brick enough installations to build a house.

But I can't get SpeakUp to run with any stability.  I suspect that's 
because of something fundamental about the platform.  But I'm pretty 
determined to get it going and bring accessibility to the Linux cli on 
the Pi.

If I can help in any way with updating the web site I'd be happy to do 
what I can.

Mike



On 08/05/2013 18:35, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Mike: The source for speakup has not been kept up to date in the
> speakup git repo at linux-speakup.org since speakup was initiated into
> the kernel staging tree. Someone needs to sync them once again but
> nobody has. Whoever set-up the staging repo should have back ported
> but that never happened either. Whether we resync them or not really
> depends on what we decide to do with speakup for the future.
>
>
> On Wed, 8 May 2013, Mike Ray wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I have been trying to get SpeakUp running and stable in the Raspbian 
>> (upstream Debian) and Arch Linux distros on the Raspberry Pi.
>>
>> Initially I tried with the source from the SpeakUp web site and then 
>> discovered (ooops) that there is source present in:
>>
>> linux/drivers/staging/speakup
>>
>> And the source differs between the stable 3.6.11 source taken from 
>> the kernel repository on kernel.org and that in the 3.6.y source 
>> taken from the RPI foundation site.
>>
>> Neither of these solutions is stable.  I get functionality, via 
>> espeakup but SpeakUp regularly crashes the kernel.
>>
>> I'm waiting on a console cable so I can connect another machine to 
>> the kdb console on the Pi and read kernel oops or panic, and debug 
>> stuff from the kernel.
>>
>> My question on here now is...am I missing something about the source 
>> of the source (if you see what I mean)?
>>
>> The source from the SpeakUp repo is marked as 3.1.6 (I think) and not 
>> sure about what is in the kernel source.  The kernel source has 
>> patches applied for the changes to kernel serial IO made a few 
>> versions ago.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>


-- 
Michael A. Ray
Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK

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