How would you build serial drivers or sound in an initram? It might become too large and not fit in the space alloted. Martin G. McCormick <martin at server1.shellworld.net> wrote: > The initrd idea for speakup is a great one because it > should do what you discribe. It might even be possible to build > enough of a kernel in initrd to support a thumb drive that could > augment memory storage for systems that have less than 512 > megabytes of RAM. I have a couple of those myself that are still > otherwise good systems but don't have a lot of spare RAM. > > If speakup could be put in to initrd, it might also have > a home in embedded systems which opens up a whole world of > possibilities. > > Martin > > Devon Stewart writes: > > I guess including Speakup in the initrd would solve this? Modules that > > are loaded in the initrd are maintained when booting the rest of the > > system, as far as I know, so once speakup is started everything should > > speak from boot. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
