From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from beaver.sibername.com ([64.15.155.210]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I705s-0000Gy-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:32:20 -0400 Received: from [24.226.71.61] (port=64725 helo=tenstac) by beaver.sibername.com with smtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1I705L-0001LS-GD for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:31:48 -0400 Message-ID: <002901c7c047$5a70ee70$ab00a8c0@tenstac> From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20070706064127.GA20678@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Re: initrd question Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 22:31:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - beaver.sibername.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - braille.uwo.ca X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - proficio.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:32:20 -0000 Greg, This is an interesting question. Many embedded linux systems use initrd as the permanent root file system loaded from flash. What you are proposing should be possible, since relatively speaking you have gobs of memory to work with. Check out this big blue document on the topic http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html This useful too: http://www.faqs.org/docs/evms/x3834.html You'd need a large ramdisk to fit all that in there, but in theory at least it seems feasible. There is kernel parameter initrd= where you can specify memory address and the ramdisk size, for example initrd=0xa1500000,8M root=/dev/ram -- Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" To: Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:41 AM Subject: initrd question > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > Is it possible to include the speech-dispatcher/speechd-up/espeak > binaries in an initrd, so that one has speech almost as early as with > a hardware synth? If this is doable, and will provide speech > significantly earlier in the boot process, (especially if I were to > build alsa into the kernel itself), then could someone familiar with > how to work with initrds please describe the steps I would need to > take in order to accomplish this on a debian system? Thanks in > advance. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGjeQX7s9z/XlyUyARAtZJAJsEs5IuKsVNNL1tODFuILRKiiljIwCg20ih > Cnptvy/Qt0IqIUggn6103Cw= > =q68h > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup