I am not sure either, but if you had to have sound drivers in there, it might be difficult, and I am not sure what would happen otherwise. If speakup is built into the kernel and we can get the serial port stuff to work properly, that would work OK. Devon Stewart <devonst17 at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not familiar with the size constraints of the initrd, would the addition of speakup and associated modules really add much more that a couple megs (at worst)? > > -Devon > > May 8, 2013 11:21?covici at ccs.covici.com ??????: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > 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
