From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [announce 7/7] fbsplash - documentation
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:29:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503091829.48999.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910503090854e245740@mail.gmail.com>
On Middeweken 09 März 2005 17:54, Jon Smirl wrote:
> framebuffer already has a class registered. check out /sys/class/grpahics.
>
> You should be able to just call request_firmware and have it download
> your image whenever you need it. It doesn't have to be firmware,
> request_firmware will download anything.
Agreed, request_firmware() would be a really nice way to simplify the interface.
It might be more practical to use the /sys/class/tty/tty* object instead of
the /sys/class/graphics/fb* one, but I don't know enough about the console
subsystem to tell for sure.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-09 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-08 2:17 [announce 7/7] fbsplash - documentation Michal Januszewski
2005-03-08 3:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-03-08 5:00 ` Matan Peled
2005-03-08 17:39 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-08 6:12 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-08 22:37 ` Michal Januszewski
2005-03-09 0:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-03-09 2:05 ` Michal Januszewski
2005-03-09 15:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-03-10 0:16 ` Michal Januszewski
2005-03-11 12:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-09 16:54 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-09 17:29 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2005-03-09 19:11 ` Pavel Machek
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