Hello Kirk, First of all thanks for a great screen-reader. Dependable when everything else turns to dust. And thanks for clearing up the status of things as they are currently. Until I came to the Raspberry Pi I had no reason to touch kernel development or debugging at all but as Linus said in an interview with the BBC; 'the Raspberry Pi makes falure affordable'. It certainly makes it possible for me to brick enough installations to build a house. But I can't get SpeakUp to run with any stability. I suspect that's because of something fundamental about the platform. But I'm pretty determined to get it going and bring accessibility to the Linux cli on the Pi. If I can help in any way with updating the web site I'd be happy to do what I can. Mike On 08/05/2013 18:35, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Mike: The source for speakup has not been kept up to date in the > speakup git repo at linux-speakup.org since speakup was initiated into > the kernel staging tree. Someone needs to sync them once again but > nobody has. Whoever set-up the staging repo should have back ported > but that never happened either. Whether we resync them or not really > depends on what we decide to do with speakup for the future. > > > On Wed, 8 May 2013, Mike Ray wrote: > >> Hello list, >> >> I have been trying to get SpeakUp running and stable in the Raspbian >> (upstream Debian) and Arch Linux distros on the Raspberry Pi. >> >> Initially I tried with the source from the SpeakUp web site and then >> discovered (ooops) that there is source present in: >> >> linux/drivers/staging/speakup >> >> And the source differs between the stable 3.6.11 source taken from >> the kernel repository on kernel.org and that in the 3.6.y source >> taken from the RPI foundation site. >> >> Neither of these solutions is stable. I get functionality, via >> espeakup but SpeakUp regularly crashes the kernel. >> >> I'm waiting on a console cable so I can connect another machine to >> the kdb console on the Pi and read kernel oops or panic, and debug >> stuff from the kernel. >> >> My question on here now is...am I missing something about the source >> of the source (if you see what I mean)? >> >> The source from the SpeakUp repo is marked as 3.1.6 (I think) and not >> sure about what is in the kernel source. The kernel source has >> patches applied for the changes to kernel serial IO made a few >> versions ago. >> >> Mike >> >> > -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi? Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers
