Kendall> Now I am completely ignorant of how the fbcon stuff works in
Kendall> the latest kernels, but one of the things that we will need
Kendall> in order to support this is the ability access the file
Kendall> system so we can dynamically load our Nucleus drivers from
Kendall> disk. The code to load the drives simply relies upon standard
Kendall> C file I/O functions (which may not be available in the
Kendall> kernel, but some sort of file I/O must be?) and is pure,
Kendall> portable C code so that can compile for the kernel just
Kendall> fine. However when does the fbcon stuff get initialised, and
Kendall> can it be initialised late enough in the bootup sequence such
Kendall> that the device drivers for the console can be loaded from
Kendall> the file system? What sort of problems are we going to have
Kendall> to face getting our driver loading code working in the
Kendall> kernel?
Start by taking a look at Geert's abscon page:
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/Console/
It is possible to do loadable frame buffers.
Jes
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