Status of kernel

John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Sun Nov 13 17:25:22 EST 2016


Well, that's discrimination.



On 11/13/2016 04:11 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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



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