fb0 for console & fb1 for every one

Hello!

	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? So fbcon will be just another
	user of fbmem.

	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?
	This looks for me not reliable - doing more when less is needed...

--- 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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