All,
Again, sorry for replying to a very old thread. With the recent Speakup
patches, here are my quick steps to compiling a kernel for Debian, Ubuntu
and derivatives. The generated image installed fine here, but as always, use
at your own risk.
1. Download the "linux-source" package for the version you want, such as
4.10.7 as the time of writing:
http://deb.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/linux/
2. Install the package:
sudo -i linux-source-4.10.7*.deb
3. If not already installed, make sure you install build-essential:
sudo apt-get -q install build-essential
You probably want to install recommended packages.
4. Make a directory in your home directory and extract the source:
cd
mkdir kernel
cd kernel
tar xf /usr/src/linux-source-XXX.tar.xz
Replace XXX with the full name of the tar archive found in /usr/src. All
recent linux-source packages have an identical naming convention. It will
extract a full kernel source archive with Debian patches.
5. Copy a config file. You can use the one in /boot if your kernel is recent
enough. Otherwise, under /usr/src, you'll find a config-4.10.7 directory
with various files. In my case, I copy *amd64 to .config in the top level
kernel source directory, such as ~/kernel/.config.
Apply any patches you want, such as the new speakup2.tgz archive over the
Speakup code supplied with the kernel. When everything is done, just run this:
make deb-pkg
You probably want to append a custom version string. Details on how to do
that and a fuller explanation of the above can be found here in section 8.10:
https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/
Hopefully the above is useful. I release this document into the public
domain, but credit would be appreciated. Please credit Baechler Access
Technology Services. Thanks.
On 8/11/2016 7:10 AM, John G Heim wrote:
The script would not work for gentoo as written. It relies on "lsb_release
-si" returning either "Debian" or "Ubuntu". I have been making progress on
making it more general but it is very difficult even to write a script that
works from one release of debian to the next or from one release of ubuntu
to the next. For example, when you download the kernel source package, it
creates a subdirectory of your current working directory. That directory
name is not the same from release to release, and in fact, I've found that
the pattern for the name of that subdirectory isn't consistent from one
release to the next. I had code to determine the subdir name based on the
output from uname but it didn't work when I upgraded my PC. I figured out a
way around that. But another problem is that the patch itself is very
specific to a particular kernel version.
I see that gentoo compiles all of it's packages on your computer. All you
would need to do is hack the code yourself before it compiles the kernel.
You need to edit the file drivers/staging/serialio.c in the kernel source
tree. Find a line that issues a warning saying "Unable to allocate port at"
and comment out the return statement after that warning. My patch files also
change that warning to say "continuing anyway". That makes it easier to see
what is happening in the system logs. My kernel build script also adds the
string "+spk" to the kernel version to make it easier for you to tell which
kernel you are running via the uname command. I have no idea how to do that
in gentoo.
On 08/10/2016 08:21 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Will this script work for gentoo? That distro seriously needs a good
script to do something like this.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, John G Heim wrote:
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 11:51:32
From: John G Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: make-speakup-kernel
I posted an updated version of the script I use to build the kernel
hacked to support serial hardware synths. This script does everything
necessary to build a kernel for either debian or ubuntu. Even if you
don't want to use the script, it might be educational for learning to
build the kernel yourself. To download the script:
wget http://www.iavit.org/~john/Debian/make-speakup-kernel
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another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man
availeth much in its working. (ASV)
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