William, Thanks for your concise explanation. I really should get involved more with Gentoo and/or Speakup ... is the accessibility team looking for anymore manpower? Garrett On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 21:22 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Garrett, > > > How will this work for those of us who want speakup in the kernel? Are > > we just going to have to stick with vanilla kernel.org kernels? > > Until 2.6.26 comes out, that is what I suggest. Here is why. > > Putting speakup directly into the kernel requires two patches. A patch > to the kernel sources, and a patch to the build system. If you try to > run the install script from the speakup git repository, it will attempt > to apply both patches to the kernel. But, since the patch to the > sources is already applied to gentoo-sources, this would be an error > condition. > > The reason this will be different with 2.6.26 is that our patche to the > sources was accepted into the official kernel.org tree, so now we only > will patch the build system if you want to have speakup in the kernel. > > Speakup itself will not be in 2.6.26, just the hooks that make it > possible for speakup to run. There are still issues to work out with > speakup before we can ask for it to be accepted into the official kernel > tree. > > Does that make sense? > > - -- > William Hubbs > gentoo accessibility team lead > williamh at gentoo.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkgjtWcACgkQblQW9DDEZThNKgCeIlLpNbRCLwIu0xHiP/1lfNH9 > 3vIAn1EQaxew5Gfh4n4/+lxfAsaN7sVX > =Qkal > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
