Re: Gentoo - where's speakup been put?

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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Hi Garrett,

> How will this work for those of us who want speakup in the kernel? Are
> we just going to have to stick with vanilla kernel.org kernels?

Until 2.6.26 comes out, that is what I suggest.  Here is why.

Putting speakup directly into the kernel requires two patches.  A patch
to the kernel sources, and a patch to the build system.  If you try to
run the install script from the speakup git repository, it will attempt
to apply both patches to the kernel.  But, since the patch to the
sources is already applied to gentoo-sources, this would be an error
condition.

The reason this will be different with 2.6.26 is that our patche to the
sources was accepted into the official kernel.org tree, so now we only
will patch the build system if you want to have speakup in the kernel.

Speakup itself will not be in 2.6.26, just the hooks that make it
possible for speakup to run.  There are still issues to work out with
speakup before we can ask for it to be accepted into the official kernel
tree.

Does that make sense?

- -- 
William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh@gentoo.org
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