I use an initramfs, and I have speakup built in, but indeed, I do get messages pretty early, certainly before the real root is alive -- things are fine as long as the kernel boots up, if that were not to happen, then I would be sunk without something in the kernel itwself. Chris Brannon <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "John G. Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Yeah, if you're a linux sysadmin, hardware speech is not some luxury > > you can do without. > > Well, if the Linux console moves into user space, this doesn't have mean the > end of hardware speech. > Perhaps the way forward is through initramfs? As a proof of concept, I > built one that had the Speakup modules, audio libraries, and espeakup. > I had *software* speech running from the initramfs. > It was a bit difficult to build it, because I had to figure out all of > the dependencies and add them. But it worked. > Now, if you're just doing hardware speech, things are going to be much > less complicated, and it should definitely be possible to have it long > before the root partition is mounted, even if the Linux console code > ends up migrating to userspace. > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
