fb0 for console & fb1 for every one

Hello!

	[ CC me please - not subscribed ]

	I have a little question.
	More conceptual - documentation says nothing about it.
	At least I found nothing.
	Any fingering to RTFM is welcome.

	We have piece of custom hardware which has 
	two displays: LCD and RTC.
	[ Kernel vanilla 2.4.20. ]
	We are using vga16 for RTC - testing/support/debug go here.
	We are using (heavily fixed) driver for sed1374 Epson 
	chip as a second frame buffer device.

	And now we are hitting a lot of problems with the fact that 
	FBs is heavily biased in direction of consoles.
	But our second FB is used solely for graphics!
	We do not need a console on it! (but mc there looks nice ;)

	The Question:
	Is there any patch for fbmem to remove its (looks like
	intentional) links to fbcon? move them where they (as 
	I believe) should be - fbcon?

	When I was recommending FB interface - I expected that fbcon 
	stack up on fbmem. Was my impression from docs. But that's not
	true.

	Currently we are doing a lot of stupid stuff like change of 
	controlling terminal, hiding the cursor, switching off the 
	console blanking, etc.

	Is there any way to avoid this stuff?

--- Regards&Wishes! With respect  Ihar "Philips" Filipau, and Phil for
friends

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MCS/Mathematician - System Programmer
Ihar Filipau 
Software entwickler @ SUSS MicroTec Test Systems GmbH, 
Suss-Strasse 1, D-01561 Sacka (bei Dresden)
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