[BRLTTY] Brltty support on OpenBSD

[Mario Lang]

Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> writes:

> On Sun, 25 Jun 2023, Dave Mielke wrote:
>
>> [quoted lines by Crystal Kolipe on 2023/06/25 at 21:17 -0300]
>> 
>> >It's certainly possible to patch OpenBSD to implement a screen
>> readout device that would potentially allow brltty to access the
>> console independently of any particular login session, just like it
>> does on Linux systems.
>> 
>> For the screen driver, we need to know the cursor's coordinates
>> (column, row), the screen's dimensions (columns, rows), and the
>> characters' Unicode values. Two nice extras would be colour
>> information for each character and a way to inject input.

I highly doubt upstream would accept such a kernel change.
They are very security aware, and poking a hole into the console
is likely a trigger for some people.  Besides, we have a nice
user-space solution these days, we should give it a try before
attempting the likely unwanted.

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