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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@linux-speakup.org>
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Rob, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 16:12:27 -0600, wrote:
> John G. Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> wrote:
> > How does the kernel's 
> serial console talk to the serial port? Why can't speakup do the same?
> 
> How does BRLTTY do it? Can we implement similar code?

BRLTTY lives in userland, not kernel land.

Samuel