Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > > Very early is not so early, and loading initrd itself may actually fail.
> > > The kernel may indeed hang, but there are more chances to get some
> > > messages before the hang.  Don't _you_ have a VGA screen for getting
> > > earliest failure messages from the kernel?
> > 
> > No. I'm using framebuffer, that's initialized quite late in boot
> > process. Plus many users just use bootsplash. I do use vga mode for
> > heavy debugging, but that's quite unusual.
> 
> But that's what some people do for their work, so they need it.

How many such users are out there?

> > So... you actually have speech-enabled grub/lilo/something?
> 
> That's in project too (and there's no reason it shouldn't be done).

I'd say kernel debugging is hard without accessible bootloader, so I'd
hope number of such users is very low.
							Pavel
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