Status of kernel

[Samuel Thibault]

John G. Heim, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 16:05:53 -0600, wrote:
> One thing I've never understood is why the kernel can have a serial console
> yet speakup can't talk to the serial port. How does the kernel's serial
> console talk to the serial port? Why can't speakup do the same?

Because there is special plumbing between the serial console and the
serial drivers. Doing the same plumbing between speakup and serial
drivers would be very very frowned upon.

Samuel