Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 02:17:21 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Shaun Dwyer <sldwyer@bigpond.com> Cc: "Patrick S. Gardella" <patrick@FreeBSD.ORG>, tdwyer@bigpond.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LCD driver port (Linux -> FreeBSD) needed for car-mp3 player Message-ID: <200104300917.f3U9HL808411@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:51:11 %2B0800." <3AED0B5F.CF181D5F@bigpond.com>
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> The software I am using in Linux (cajun - cajun.sourceforge.net)
> requires a serial display to work. What the linux driver does is emulate
> the serial display, and provides a /dev/lcd.
>
> As I am not a perl coder, I cannot modify Cajun to use the app you
> wrote, And as I am not a C coder, I cannot modify what you wrote to behave
> like the linux driver.
>
> Unless there is something already around that can take input in the way
> /dev/cuaaX does, and then pump the data into what you wrote, I think that
> the easiest way to do this is to make a driver for FreeBSD that behaves
> exactly the way that the Linux driver does.
Er, you're no great shakes at logic, either.
"I can't fix the app, so someone else should write a driver" is what
you've just said.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, and simply tell you that fixing
the app will be a damn sight easier than writing this driver you're
talking about.
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