Re: New Driver: picolcdgraph (Mini-box.com picoLCD 256x64 Sideshow)

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 08:57:21PM +0100, Markus Dolze wrote:
> Additionally, I strongly suggest to use the 'glcd' driver (not to be
> confused with 'glcdlib' driver) available in CVS HEAD. This one takes
> care of most text related parts of a LCDproc driver and support Freetype
> rendering as well. Unfortunately, it is not yet optimized for use with
> display that use 'paged' memory layout and requires some frame buffer
> conversions in that case. The GLCD2USB device works in a similar way and
> is already supported. The Freetype rendering code can unfortunately not
> be used with other drivers (yet).

Hi Markus,

Thanks for the pointers. When I next get some time to spend on this, I will
rework this driver for glcd, as it looks like a good solution to the problem.

Many thanks, and bye for now,
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