Speakup in kernel

[Alan Cox]

> in a matrix of devices requiring support from the bios through the
> desktop. Indeed, there is a releated FSG project now getting under way
> in the new Accessibility WG I chair under FSG.

The linux kernel is run by Linus. Thats the challenge. To get stuff good
enough Linus will take it. If its modular you are a large part of the way 
there because you can get the base to the point he takes it and one nice
clean driver and then work from it.

> If video belongs in the kernel, so does Speakup.

Not neccessarily. There are good arguments that kernel mode handling
beyond adding working select() on /dev/vt* isn't needed. Its also a deeply
political issue it seems - some blind folks are deeply pro speakup others
deeply anti. Future questions like the vanishing of serial ports on PC's
make it even harder to keep kernel side.