> On 3 Jun 2017, at 13:32, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Gregory Nowak, on ven. 02 juin 2017 17:44:51 -0700, wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 07:56:57PM -0400, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> Uh. Well, probably, actually. It's a matter of writing the driver, i.e. >>> having a documentation of the protocol and somebody to do the tests, or >>> better, lend the hardware for testing. >> >> We already have the driver, for serial anyway. The blazer uses the bns >> driver. > > Ah, cool :) > >> It sounds from what you said like it wouldn't be straight >> forward to open the parallel port instead of the serial port, and just >> start writing to it. > > Yes, since /dev/lp* provide a tty interface, so the tty codebase should > be able to use them. That actually shows that serdev is not enough for > all our uses, so we'll really want to use the tty interface. True This sounds great. /dev/lp* support should be straightforward. I am thinking of adding ttyS* and ttyUSB* in the first pass. And then add lp* afterwards as that may require testing. Let me know if that's okay. Thanks, Okash _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
