Speakup Issues

[Adam Myrow]

Regarding the problems with serial ports, why can't Speakup tie into the 
serial console code?  There is already code to make a serial port act as 
the console, so I would think that Speakup could use some of that code. 
If the daemon route is chosen instead, could the daemon be run from an 
initial RAM disk?  That would get it to start up before the root 
filesystem mounts, and that is when most problems happen, if they are 
going to.  The whole point of having Speakup support serial synthesizers 
from boot is to deal with such problems as the root filesystem refusing to 
mount, and being able to read the error message to see what is wrong.