Basic braille screen reader support
authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:54:51 +0000 (00:54 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:29:52 +0000 (08:29 -0700)
commitf7511d5f66f01fc451747b24e79f3ada7a3af9af
tree934196c15e43077641e35286078a6753700a3e3d
parent730f412c08c13858f7681bac0a2770fbc9159fed
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>
15 files changed:
Documentation/braille-console.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
drivers/Kconfig
drivers/Makefile
drivers/accessibility/Kconfig [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/accessibility/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/accessibility/braille/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/accessibility/braille/braille_console.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/char/consolemap.c
drivers/char/keyboard.c
drivers/char/vt.c
include/linux/console.h
kernel/printk.c