Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:01:29 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Tim Pushor <timp@crossthread.com> Subject: Re: Crystalfontz LCD display from kernel? Message-ID: <200409232201.30201.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4151C8F6.5060905@crossthread.com> References: <4151C8F6.5060905@crossthread.com>
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--nextPart2840352.zeMYW93JQy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 04:18, Tim Pushor wrote: > My question is, I would really like to be able to display various things > during startup, shutdown, and once shutdown is complete to the LCD. I > assume I would have to modify the kernel for this. I done lots of C > programming, and hardware interface programming in C and assembler, but > never any UNIX kernel programming. > > First of all, is this doable? Also, would it be easier (from the kernel > programming perspective) to do this via USB or Serial? Opening a device etc from the kernel would be moderatly painful.. It write a userland program which did it first and then port it. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2840352.zeMYW93JQy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBUsIi5ZPcIHs/zowRAkxXAKCV39RXlfYW+OGJ4qHiJ5+1pIuLhwCfSYbr DrwveMU30mMsUMxXz97a4+Y= =Dwna -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2840352.zeMYW93JQy--
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