On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 04:34:23PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote: > How does a serial console work? If you can configure a serial console, > why can't you configure a serial speech synthesizer? Or does the kernel > team have problems with serial consoles too? I haven't looked at this code in a long time, but I do remember that it is unsuitable for speakup. > How does a serial terminal work? Serial terminals are completely different; they are handled in user space, by getty, much later in the boot process. William