[LinuxBIOS] Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, BIOSes is an area where accessibility is approximately non-existent. Asking vendors to support hardware speech syntheses and braille devices is quite dreamwork. I tried to convince accessibility people to release basic drivers with BSD licenses so that vendors might integrate them, but they

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Great to have so fast a reply :) Stefan Reinauer, le Mon 03 Jul 2006 01:11:05 +0200, a écrit : * Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060703 00:06]: BIOSes is an area where accessibility is approximately non-existent. Asking vendors to support hardware speech syntheses and braille devices

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060703 01:26]: Maybe this code could be encapsulated, similar to how VGA bios or network boot is handled. Indeed, except that it relies on serial or USB support, which might not be easy to ship in a so encapsulated way. Serial support is easy. USB is

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Stefan Reinauer, le Mon 03 Jul 2006 01:41:49 +0200, a écrit : * Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060703 01:26]: On the other hand, this would cut off quite some of the bringup from visibility I'm sorry, my poor english couldn't understand that :) Sorry for the confusion.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-02 Thread yhlu
two ways 1. Eric said that the EHCI that may not need buffer for some debug function. 2. use cpu cache for ohci or uhci buffer for packet. YH On 7/2/06, Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060703 01:26]: Maybe this code could be