From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Asiliantfb (Frame Buffer) Driver From: Adrian Cox To: Dieu Morales Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <20040621212131.61159.qmail@web60405.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040621212131.61159.qmail@web60405.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1087887950.1547.98.camel@newt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:05:51 +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/