Serial ports with 32-bit vs. 64-bit processors

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

You can get hardware speech if you are willing to compile your kernel
and do a patch which is a temporary workaround for the problem.

Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:

> Ah, that's what I've been wondering about.  I've asked various people here
> who claim to have working hardware speech, but never got a response.  My
> question is if they're running 32-bit or not.  I can not only confirm that
> it won't work on 64-bit systems but if I try to unload speakup_soft and
> load speakup_ltlk, it completely locks up the system.  Someone else said
> they didn't have any problem with serial speech with new kernels and a
> 32-bit processor, but I couldn't get it confirmed.  Now, my question is
> what difference would a 64-bit processor make?  Why does it completely
> lock up here but seems to work for at least three people on older 32-bit
> processors?  I'm tempted to install 32-bit Debian Wheezy just to see if it
> makes any difference.  I can say that it doesn't seem to matter on a
> 32-bit live CD here.
> 
> On 5/15/2013 3:45 PM, Adam Myrow wrote:
> > Ok, I am using the kernel that ships with Debian 7.0, which is listed
> > as 3.2.0-4-686-pae.  My Dectalk USB works just as it always has in
> > RS232 mode. In other words, serial support isn't broken for me.  This
> > is the 32-bit version, so maybe that's the difference. 
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