Speakup Issues

[William Hubbs]

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