Speakup in an initramfs? I love it. Let's remember that technology will continue to bmove, and we should think creatively about how to do equivalents of Speakup in an initramfs going forward. What about a full computer on a USB stick? Boot the stick then start the main machine drive as a vm. Am I crazy? I think not. I suspect there are other opportunities, too. Janina Chris Brannon writes: > "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 -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
