Owen Patrick Smith wrote: >Hello, > >Myself and my two project partenors are working along the same lines as >you. See our (somewhat outdated) website at http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux >for a description of our work. Our code uses the device file system to >transfer the data while yours appears to use a system call that was added >for the purpose. Our code also includes SMP protections even though >Speakup itself does not on the theory that sometime soon it may. > I didn't take care of smp, cause I think most of user don't have a multiprocessor machine; instead, one of our Project Requisite was a "real time" behaviour on a Pentium II 233 machine. However, we should consider to include a smp protection, for a complete support. For interaction between kernel and userlan, I considered three different approach: - via dev fs - via proc fs - via system call and the most efficient was the third case, so was implemented via system call, even if devfs e procfs are more flexible. >The reason I am writing you is that your code does not mention anywhere >(except in festival.h) under what lisence the code is being released. If >you would tell us if your code is GPL'ed or under some similar lisence >that would be useful as we may wish to use your middleware.c file as the >basis on which to build our own. > > Sorry... all the code is under GPL... I wrote about it on the website, but I forget to add the license file into the tarball. Matteo
