Greg, This is an interesting question. Many embedded linux systems use initrd as the permanent root file system loaded from flash. What you are proposing should be possible, since relatively speaking you have gobs of memory to work with. Check out this big blue document on the topic http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html This useful too: http://www.faqs.org/docs/evms/x3834.html You'd need a large ramdisk to fit all that in there, but in theory at least it seems feasible. There is kernel parameter initrd= where you can specify memory address and the ramdisk size, for example initrd=0xa1500000,8M root=/dev/ram -- Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:41 AM Subject: initrd question > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > Is it possible to include the speech-dispatcher/speechd-up/espeak > binaries in an initrd, so that one has speech almost as early as with > a hardware synth? If this is doable, and will provide speech > significantly earlier in the boot process, (especially if I were to > build alsa into the kernel itself), then could someone familiar with > how to work with initrds please describe the steps I would need to > take in order to accomplish this on a debian system? Thanks in > advance. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGjeQX7s9z/XlyUyARAtZJAJsEs5IuKsVNNL1tODFuILRKiiljIwCg20ih > Cnptvy/Qt0IqIUggn6103Cw= > =q68h > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
