From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id E4CA71EFD4D; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 20:20:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr (hera.aquilenet.fr [185.233.100.1]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 510AE1EFD47 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2019 20:20:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A842E123; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 01:20:17 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at aquilenet.fr Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hera.aquilenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TKfOZuwe6sGk; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 01:20:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from function (105.251.129.77.rev.sfr.net [77.129.251.105]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AD5B8CD4; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 01:20:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from samy by function with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1h4x3f-0005Rc-OU; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 01:20:15 +0100 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 01:20:15 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Cc: William Hubbs Subject: Re: TODO file Message-ID: <20190316002015.kybg5vlcsdanahry@function> References: <20190312202652.1e386ddf@narunkot> <20190312220915.qgtag5vezpaouoxp@function> <20190314110726.3bcc7bcf@narunkot> <20190314122447.rn2mr47n3rpebbrp@function> <20190314154303.0ca2f45d@narunkot> <20190314154419.6oysgov7yfichxrx@function> <20190315105735.41e84bfe@narunkot> <20190315113955.vqtqozisbi2352t3@function> <20190315235424.GB6641@gregn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190315235424.GB6641@gregn.net> Organization: I am not organized User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list 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, 16 Mar 2019 00:20:23 -0000 Gregory Nowak, le ven. 15 mars 2019 16:54:24 -0700, a ecrit: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:39:55PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Okash Khawaja, le ven. 15 mars 2019 10:57:35 +0000, a ecrit: > > > 1. What are our options for internal synths which still use direct > > > communication with hardware: acntpc, decpc, dtlk and keypc? > > > > I was thinking they could just remain in staging. The corresponding > > hardware is very difficult to make work nowadays (typically ISA cards), > > so I don't think it is a problem that they are not in mainline. > > I'd just like to chime in here, and say that at least myself, and one > more person on this list are still using a DoubleTalk PC card (dtlk > driver). While I understand the two of us are in the minority, it > would be appreciated if these cards could be made to work once again > with newer kernels. The support is not to be removed. It's just that the way we are accessing the cards is really nasty, I don't think we can get this into mainline. I'm however wondering: is that an ISA card you still manage to run? Or are there PCI versions? (but then I wonder how they get to expose ISA ports). Samuel