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From: "Sébastien Hinderer" <Sebastien.Hinderer@loria.fr>
To: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@connecttech.com>,
	"'Alan Cox'" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"'Samuel Thibault'" <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	rmk@arm.linux.org.uk,
	"'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] new serial flow control
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:26:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041007072601.GA947@galois> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097113651.6013.8.camel@at2.pipehead.org>

Hi,

> > I haven't seen this style of flow control before. What uses it?
> 
> terminal visio-braille (TVB)
> A device for the sight impaired.

Just to give a litle bit more precise information: this braille terminal
has been designed more than 10 years ago by the Handialog socity which is
now part of the TechniBraille/United Vision group.
Modern VisioBra"lles (with Prom of version 4 or higher) support both a
standard serial port management, and this odd flow control which was
originally designed to be used under MS-DOS, and was appropriate for doing
polling.

The integration of Samuel's patch into the kernel would allow users of
teominals containing a PROM older than 4 to use brltty with their terminal,
which would be a very useful thing, because updating such a PROM has a very
high cost.

Sébastien.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-07  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-04 22:54 [Patch] new serial flow control Samuel Thibault
2004-10-04 22:55 ` Samuel Thibault
2004-10-05 22:51   ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06  7:11     ` Sébastien Hinderer
2004-10-06  7:38       ` Samuel Thibault
2004-10-06 13:29         ` Alan Cox
2004-10-07  1:30           ` Stuart MacDonald
2004-10-07  1:47             ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-07  7:26               ` Sébastien Hinderer [this message]
2004-10-07 13:00             ` Alan Cox
2004-10-07 14:28               ` Samuel Thibault
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-05 16:46 Chuck Ebbert
2004-10-05 17:25 ` Samuel Thibault
2004-10-07 19:08   ` Alan Cox
2004-10-07 20:27     ` Russell King
2004-10-07 22:08       ` Samuel Thibault
2004-10-07 23:10         ` Russell King
2004-10-07 21:43     ` Samuel Thibault
2004-10-07 22:55       ` Samuel Thibault
2004-10-08 18:59     ` Samuel Thibault
2004-10-07 11:08 Nick Craig-Wood

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