preparing speakup for staging

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Hi Steve,

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:06:26AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> That's exciting we're that much closer to full Kernel inclusion.  I do
> have one question though; is the serial support for recent kernels
> still broken? I know the last time I tried my speakout synth, it still
> wouldn't work.  I have tested it with other serial communications and
> used it on another machine where I have a very old kernel so the
> synth, port and cable are good.  It just seems ironic that even though
> software synthesis has become increasingly popular and convenient, the
> one thing that speakup used to require and stood out with was serial
> support which now doesn't work in many cases.  If I understood that
> code base better, I could try and debug it/fix it.

Yes, unfortunatelyk, this is still an issue.  That is part of the reason
for staging though.  Hopefully this will get more people looking at the
code and helping us rework the serial code among other things so that
we can get to full kernel inclusion.

William



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