Litle LCD on MBX860

Litle LCD on MBX860

[Andrés Chamorro]

I want to conect a litle LCD on MBX860. I want to use
microwindows, too.
¿What are the usual lcd uses for this target?
I have Mvista 2.0 kernel.
Thanks.


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Re: Litle LCD on MBX860

[Dan Malek]

Andrés Chamorro wrote:

> I want to conect a litle LCD on MBX860. I want to use
> microwindows, too.

You aren't going to connect an LCD to the MBX860 and see anything.
There isn't any LCD controller on the 860.  You need an 823 or
some external graphics controller.


	-- Dan


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Re: Litle LCD on MBX860

[RSR - Dominioni Piero]

Hi all.
 I wanted to connect a LCD to a MPC823-based board and to use
microwindows too .

Dan Malek answered:
> You aren't going to connect an LCD to the MBX860 and see anything.
> There isn't any LCD controller on the 860.  You need an 823 or
> some external graphics controller.

Correct.
But what happens when the externel controller is provided?
Is there a LinuxPPC driver for it?
Does the LCD device become such as a character device
(or something like that) that needs a suitable node in /dev
with its own driver to be registered?

I tryed to configure Wolfgang's 2.4.4-2001-11-24 kernel for
TQM860L and while (obviously) there is no LCD driver for
860, the framebuffer is still there...
Does it mean that anyway it is possible to use a LCD with MPC860?
Thank you for any answer!
Bye

Piero


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