Re: Asiliantfb (Frame Buffer) Driver

[Adrian Cox <adrian@humboldt.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 22:21, Dieu Morales wrote:
> My firmware does initialize the CT69000 as an
> environment option that allows what looks like VGA
> mode consisting of a simple black screen with
> white text.  As per some suggestions I have removed
> vga_con and added fb_con but received different(worse)
> results.  Without conswitchp = &fb_con I get an
> exception shortly after the asiliant driver has been
> initialized. And with conswitchp = &fb_con the system
> hangs immediately after ppc.md.setup_arch in setup.c.

What I do is to have this in my platform setup code:

#ifdef CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE
	conswitchp = &dummy_con;
#endif

Then I select the console from the command line.

I can't vouch for the modified version in the kernel tree. My original
driver for the 69030 had a bug that made it fail if the VGA firmware had
already initialised the card. That wasn't a problem on the target
platform, but it is why I never submitted the driver to the kernel.


- Adrian Cox
Humboldt Solutions Ltd


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