PCI serial?

[Zachary Kline]

Hiya,
    I can understand this philosophy, to be sure.  The VM does work quite 
well for me.  I'm even able to emulate serial ports with a fair degree of 
usability.  I'm not too sure about the performance hit of using a VM vs 
using a physical machine, but it doesn't seem that bad.  New kernels compile 
fine, anyways.
Thanks for your help, everybody.
All the best,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: PCI serial?


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> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:58:15PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> Hello,
>>     Is it possible to configure the board to do this sort of thing?  I'm 
>> no
>> hardware expert, at all, and it just seems as if I'm at a serious
>> disadvantage here.  I can't install Linux without using Speakup, and I 
>> can't
>> use Speakup without a serial port, and I can't, well, you get the
> idea.
>
> Honestly, it's not as bad as you make it out to be. If you were
> playing around in a vm thus far, and if you're ok with how the vm
> does, my advice would be to just stick with the vm. Provided you have
> a fairly modern system, which you seem to, there's really not much
> difference between running in a vm, and on a physical box. Arguably,
> running in a vm has the advantage that you have a specific set of
> emulated hardware. Provided that hardware works ok for you with linux,
> if you don't run on a physical box, you don't have to worry about
> trying to get actual hardware to work, especially if you didn't build
> or design the system yourself with the intent of running gnu/linux on
> it.
>
> Greg
>
>
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