Re: Serial methods in speakup

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Peter Hurley, on Tue 19 Apr 2016 09:26:41 -0700, wrote:
> On 04/19/2016 09:15 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > 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

Then you have a VGA driver.

> but that goes through console write, not through tty.

The console *is* a tty.

Samuel
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