Announcing kernel 4.3.3 with serial speech

[Tony Baechler]

All,

As the subject says, I've now built 64-bit unofficial Debian kernel 4.3.3 
packages with working serial synth support. I haven't built 32-bit packages 
at this time, but I will if I get enough requests and assuming the 64-bit 
packages work. I tested the kernel image here and my DECtalk Express talked, 
but actual testing has been minimal. Thanks to Samuel Thibault, John Covici 
and John Heim for their help. Before you download, please read and agree to 
the following:

1. These packages are provided as-is and are totally unsupported. If 
something breaks, I'm interested in knowing about it, but I probably won't 
fix it. It works here more or less.

2. Make sure not to load any other Speakup modules once the serial synth 
driver is loaded. Specifically, I had speakup_dectlk in my initramfs and 
speakup_soft in /etc/modules. The system locked up during boot until 
speakup_soft was commented out. Double check both /etc/modules and 
/etc/initramfs-tools/modules on Debian-based systems to make sure you aren't 
loading multiple synths.

3. While these packages are built with make-kpkg and should work on both 
Debian and Ubuntu, they haven't been tested at all on Ubuntu and are not 
official packages. Therefore, there is no security support and you use them 
entirely at your own risk.

There is currently no apt repository. All you need is the kernel-image 
package, but kernel-headers, kernel-image-dbg, etc are provided for 
completeness. Checksums can be found in the .dsc file. Here is the download 
link:

http://classicradio.us/kernel-amd64/

If there is enough demand and interest, I could set up an automated build 
system as new stable kernels are released, but this is a low priority. At 
least there is a recent kernel which supports hardware speech.

-- 
Tony Baechler, founder, Baechler Access Technology Services
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