Re: Introducing the LCD-Linux project

[James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>]

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> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 16:43, Florian Tobias Schandinat
> <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Mattia Jona-Lasinio <mattia.jona <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >> Moreover I wanted something that COULD be used as a console but not
> >> necessarily, that is
> >> something that could run happily in the presence of a normal monitor
> >> as well. It seems to me, but I may be
> >> wrong, that through the standard console system only the current
> >> visible console is actually updated
> >> while other consoles are just "software" updated. An external LCD
> >> would therefore be updated
> >> only when you "switch" to it, so it would not be possible to use it to
> >> display diagnostics.
> >
> > True, that's a general problem one has when multiple framebuffers exist.
> > Therefore I'd be very happy if someone could come up with a general solution.
> 
> Fixing that was (one of the) goal of the linux-console project. James?

Yeap. That was one of the goals. Plus a bunch others.

> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
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> 
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