Re: framebuffer/console question

Hi Angelo,

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:29 PM, angelo <[email protected]> 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

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