linux-kernel - Re: [HELP REQUESTED from the community] Was: Staging status of speakup

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Date:   Thu, 25 Jul 2019 06:44:10 -0400
From:   John Covici <covici@....covici.com>
To:     "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
        <speakup@...ux-speakup.org>
Cc:     Gregory Nowak <greg@...gn.net>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Simon Dickson <simonhdickson@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [HELP REQUESTED from the community] Was: Staging status of speakup

I think the program is genmap, I  have it in my init sequence, but I
am not sure it does anything at this point.

On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:04:07 -0400,
Chris Brannon wrote:
> 
> Gregory Nowak <greg@...gn.net> writes:
> 
> > keymap
> > I believe this is the currently active kernel keymap. I'm not sure of
> > the format, probably what dumpkeys(1) and showkey(1) use. Echoing
> > different values here should allow for remapping speakup's review
> > commands besides remapping the keyboard as a whole.
> 
> AFAIK the Speakup keymap is just for remapping keys to Speakup
> functions.  It's a binary format, not related to dumpkeys etc.  You need
> a special program to compile a textual keymap into something that can be
> loaded into /sys/accessibility/speakup/keymap.  I may have source for
> that lying around here somewhere.  This is "here there be dragons"
> territory.  I think the only specification of the format is in the
> source code.
> 
> -- Chris
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