Re: On the project.

On 2024-03-18 11:30, Joe Nosay wrote:
> Researching, I have come upon information that the iSight will hold a
> maximum of 4.5 GB RAM while the other iMac G5
> is limited at 2GB RAM.
> Brltty needs to have ./autogen ran first.
> cat configure|more
using `less configure` will require less typing. :)

> I do not understand the mindset of this community at times.
> I am very certain that the Americans with Disabilities Act and the visually
> impaired community would gladly - and there is information on
> the forums - work again - notice the word "again" because they have asked
> multiple times in the past - with the FreeBSD community.
> I am not blind; yet, it seems to make more sense in the FreeBSD community
> to set up NetFlix while ignoring millions of people who would benefit from
> FreeBSD working with braille devices.
> Before any of you reply with sarcasm or excuses-
> I need neurosurgery.
> It is a shame that someone in bad health as myself is the only one willing
> to work on this.
While I cannot speak to the overall state of support for your hardware
needs. I can say that you will likely receive support in your efforts from 
those
on the list that have any knowledge where you struggle.

> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 9:28 AM Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have two iMac G5s: one single core with 2G RAM, the other dual core with
>> 512M RAM.
>> What is the maximum RAM that each will be able to use under FreeBSD?
>> The project will be brltty on PPC64 and others that use a bootloader.
>> PPC64 will be the initial setup.
>> I have read through the config/configure file of the brltty source code.
>> The open firmware references in the FreeBSD PPC64 were also read.
>> Before I restart on the project, here is the basic information:
>> Brltty configure will need to be rewritten to include the open firmware
>> references.
>> I have never used the FreeBSD version of the device tree referenced to
>> as the "flattened device tree." The only use/ reference/ experience was
>> directly accessing open firmware from the forth prompt.
>> Currently, I have no braille devices here due to an extremely limited
>> income. I'm going to do a port build and not a package setup of both
>> computers. More RAM will need to be purchased. Because the
>> computers are at someone else's place and that I need to purchase
>> my own mobile dedicated network along with wireless dongles, this may
>> take some time.
>> I will inform you (pl) again when the next step or so is done.
>> 
>>