From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id E24541EF7BC; Wed, 8 Oct 2014 19:09:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hurricane.the-brannons.com (hurricane.the-brannons.com [64.62.188.119]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91BF31EF7AF for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2014 19:09:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (71-38-154-164.ptld.qwest.net [71.38.154.164]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 939E878C54 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2014 16:04:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Brannon To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: the push to get rid of CONFIG_VT in the kernel and the future of Speakup References: <87zjd64c16.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> <543593E4.5040400@gmail.com> <54359B9E.10203@verizon.net> <5435AE9F.1090306@math.wisc.edu> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:04:16 -0700 In-Reply-To: <5435AE9F.1090306@math.wisc.edu> (John G. Heim's message of "Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:37:35 -0500") Message-ID: <87oatm40zz.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 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: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 23:09:27 -0000 "John G. Heim" 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