Re: kernel 2.6.24 & speakup
Hello,
Otavio Salvador, le Tue 25 Mar 2008 15:06:58 -0300, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> writes:
> > Mario Lang, le Tue 25 Mar 2008 17:28:32 +0100, a écrit :
> >> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> writes:
> >> > (speakup can now be compiled fully independently)
> >>
> >> linux-modules-extra-2.6 seems like the perfect place for speakup, now that it
> >> does not require the kernel to be patched anymore.
> >
> > Well, a small patch is still needed, but it just boils down to
> > GPL-exporting 4 symbols, and that is already in the -mm tree, so
> > backporting it to the debian kernel shouldn't be a problem..
>
> It would be nice if you could talk to Debian Kernel Team (just added
> it to cc list)
Oh, right, it was still not included.
> and see if this could be added for next 2.6.24 upload
> or later. That would allow the module to be build from
> linux-modules-extra-2.6 and later to be added to d-i if needed.
Basically, all is needed is to
git clone http://linux-speakup.org/speakup.git
Apply patches/kernel-integration-2.6.24-source.patch to the main kernel
source to GPL-export 4 symbols, and then run
make $(cat allmodules.mk) SUBDIRS=$PWD -C /some/where/linux-whatever
from src/
Samuel
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