Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > What, in your opinion, needs to be done before we can release a stable > 6.3 CD? >
* Blocker: get feedback for http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/ticket/1736. I have a person (nickname: snik) in my ICQ contact list who can boot the CD but cannot build a 2.6.22 kernel that detects his hard disks properly. Previous self-built kernels did work for him. Unfortunately, he is always hidden and doesn't provide enough feedback. This may be another manifestation of the same problem, because currently the CD abuses the "piix" vs "ata_piix" module loading order, and I am not sure whether this trick can be done at all with non-modular (WRT disk controllers) kernels that LFS says to build. The directory order in linux-2.6.22.5/drivers/Makefile seems to suggest that it is possible, but I can't test due to lack of hardware. * Fix http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/ticket/1732 - the current documentation is not accessible enough for blind people. Plus, one has to document speakup-related arguments and the volume=... argument. * Test speakup with a USB sound card. I don't have such card. * Get feedback whether the current copy-and-paste issue with speakup is critical enough to prevent one from building LFS (Georgina treats the CD as a general rescue CD, not an installation CD for LFS, and also misinterpreted my warning about the bug as "please don't test this", and thus didn't answer this question yet). If it is critical, switch to yasr (we'll probably have to do this anyway when LFS SVN gets updated to the new kernel). Unfortunately, Georgina is currently busy with the study process and cannot give useful feedback quickly. * Provide an easy way to start speakup with the software synth. Typing "linux speakup.synth=soft" is not easy enough, because non-US keyboards have the dot and the equality sign in unusual places, not where the BIOS (and thus isolinux) expects them to be. Same for brltty, but I am not sure how to handle this, because there is no arguments that fits everyone. Or maybe just document the issue in the HTML file and include the US keyboard layout there. * Add speech support to brltty - but how to test this? * Do something with http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/ticket/1741. BLFS instructions on fixing the locale related issue are outdated, the preferred solution is to use the patch from the rusxmms project (http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/rusxmms/unzip-csa2.tar.bz2) - but it depends upon librcc and librcd, and they depend upon libxml2. Thus, some changes in the package order are needed. * Maybe split the initramfs into two files, one for x86 and one for x86_64, in order to deal with the "Problems booting r2052 iso from hard drive" thread (even though I said "WONTFIX"). * Merge all relevant changes to the minimal branch. * Add ALSA and speakup-related programs to the minimal branch. * Build all CDs, both full and minimal, for both x86 and x86_64. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
