From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: suman <vijayendra.suman@gmail.com>
Cc: kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
sankar.r@samsung.com
Subject: Re: Vesafb - need double framebuffer
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 09:52:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110503095220.0325028e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=7N=vrj1S8-=wvVieTss-SnBfXew@mail.gmail.com>
> I am trying to develop a qt UI for this i need to have another
> framebuffer /dev/fb1, how can i add one more fb, should i use
> framebuffer_alloc function to allocate a new frame buffer. Do you have
> any patch for providing two frame buffers in case of vesafb driver. I
> have tried on net and i failed to find any suitable patch for the
VESA only supports the BIOS initialized framebuffer on a PC - you need a
frame buffer or KMS capable interface specific to whatever chipset you
are using that can initialize the chipset from boot.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-03 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-03 8:05 suman
2011-05-03 8:52 ` Alan Cox [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20110503095220.0325028e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--to=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=sankar.r@samsung.com \
--cc=vijayendra.suman@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®