UEFI is a neat idea, I wonder if virtual terminals would confuse it though. -Devon May 8, 2013 13:53?Kelly Prescott <kprescott at coolip.net> ??????: > I am certainly not a hardware expert, but Xen VmWare etal control the hardware as is. > Now, they don't intercept the video at least I don't think they do, but the UEFI specification allows for things to run before boot and that is why I thought we might be able to do something with that. > Remember the Speaqualizer back in the 1980's which read the hardware directly? > Maybe we could have 2 parts to speakup... > first takes over at the boot process and then a module gets loaded later to provide more functionality. > this reads the boot and hardware kernel messages as well as providing for userspace support. > > > On Wed, 8 May 2013, acollins at icsmail.net wrote: > >> I doubt that would work, I'm not familiar with uefi, but it would have >> have to intercept all the kernels hardware video calls in order to speak >> while the kernel is running. Do you know what hardware specs the uefi >> spec has? >> >> Gene >> >>> Maybe the UEFI specification can help us. >>> What about a small UEFI application to be a screen reader then launch the >>> kernel or what ever. >>> This would not work for older systems, but might get around the kernel >>> driver problem as the reader encapsulates the kernel so to speak. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 8 May 2013, Martin G. McCormick wrote: >>> --- anip --- >>>> A Unix kernel is the master process and everything else >>>> that happens on your system is spawned as a subprocess of the >>>> master. Would it be possible to have a kernel equipped with >>>> speakup spawn the rest of one's system as if it was a virtual >>>> system? That could take care of the I/O. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
