the direction of speakup

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

I am not sure either, but if you had to have sound drivers in there, it
might be difficult, and I am not sure what would happen otherwise.  If
speakup is built into the kernel and we can get the serial port stuff to
work properly, that would work OK.

Devon Stewart <devonst17 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not familiar with the size constraints of the initrd, would the addition of speakup and associated modules really add much more that a couple megs (at worst)?
> 
> -Devon
> 
> May 8, 2013 11:21、covici at ccs.covici.com のメッセージ:
> 
> > How would you build serial drivers or sound in an initram?  It might
> > become too large and not fit in the space alloted.
> > 
> > Martin G. McCormick <martin at server1.shellworld.net> wrote:
> > 
> >>    The initrd idea for speakup is a great one because it
> >> should do what you discribe. It might even be possible to build
> >> enough of a kernel in initrd to support a thumb drive that could
> >> augment memory storage for systems that have less than 512
> >> megabytes of RAM. I have a couple of those myself that are still
> >> otherwise good systems but don't have a lot of spare RAM.
> >> 
> >>    If speakup could be put in to initrd, it might also have
> >> a home in embedded systems which opens up a whole world of
> >> possibilities.
> >> 
> >> Martin
> >> 
> >> Devon Stewart writes:
> >>> I guess including Speakup in the initrd would solve this? Modules that 
> >>> are loaded in the initrd are maintained when booting the rest of the 
> >>> system, as far as I know, so once speakup is started everything should 
> >>> speak from boot.
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> > 
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