Re: Serial methods in speakup

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On 04/19/2016 09:15 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Peter Hurley, on Tue 19 Apr 2016 09:11:24 -0700, wrote:
>>>> The question is: how does speakup set the line discipline from kernel
>>>> land? One of the goals of speakup is to be available before userland
>>>> works (otherwise we could as well just move the drivers to userland), so
>>>> we don't have any userland helper to set the line disciline up.
>>
>> Can you help me understand why "one of the goals of speakup is to be available
>> before userland"?
> 
> For exactly the same reasons that we have a VGA driver before the
> installed system or initrd can take hand.

Hmmm. I don't have a VGA "driver" before initrd.
I have VGA output but that goes through console write, not through tty.
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