Hi Angelo, On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:29 PM, angelo <angel...@gmail.com> wrote: > i have a working coldfire board, running uClinux. I connected a 128x64 > monochrome lcd on gpio, and written a framebuffer driver.
On gpio, so it's not memory mapped? > From userspace i can now write on "/dev/fb0" and see some images properly. Good. > My question now is about console. Just for playing, i am trying to see the > console output on the LCD. Even if very small, this should be possible, as i > enabled the "console framebuffer" driver and some fonts. OK. > Once i booted linux, i try an echo "test" > /dev/console, something seems to > happen on the screen, some pixels are cleared, but i don't see nothing > similar to font chars. Strange. > I read fb and fbcon docs, but i couldn't find any document that explain if > console fb driver (fbcon) can be used with some fb drivers only (like > vesfb), or with any fb driver. So my question is: is it possible or i should > add/create some additional driver ? The console should work, assumed you provided the proper drawing operations in your struct fb_ops. E.g. for simple packed monochrome: .fb_fillrect = cfb_fillrect, .fb_copyarea = cfb_copyarea, .fb_imageblit = cfb_imageblit, Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev