Re: Advices for a lcd driver design. (suite)

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> 
> I posted an email 1 month ago because I was looking for advices to design
> a driver for a lcd device (128x64 pixels) with a t6963c controller.

Ugh, whats wrong with standard handling via framebuffer?

> I have finally choosen a console implementation to interact with the lcd. It
> allows me to reuse code that deals with escape character or to start a getty on
> it. Unfortunately this implemenatation doens't support lcd's graphical mode.
> So I wrote another small driver that can be accessed through "/dev/lcd". It
> drives the lcd only in graphical mode. That means that a "echo foo > /dev/lcd"
> command won't work as expected.

Look at framebuffer, that's what you want. See for example vesafb.

									Pavel
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