Basic braille screen reader support
This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports] Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
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options are the same as for ttyS, above.
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If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
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device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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console=brl,ttyS0
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For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
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earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
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uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
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uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
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