On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Bernard Blackham
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction to info about the framebuffer
> and customizing it to allow for an SPI output interface?
> >
>
>  Take a look at the deferred I/O support for framebuffers in the kernel. It
> only went in very recently (2.6.23ish IIRC), so you'll need to use the git
> kernel (or try and backport the def I/O framework to your kernel - I suspect
> it's not going to be trivial). But the framework makes life much easier for

Thanks for the support Bernard.

Currently, defio works in 2.6.25 only. Although I first pushed defio
in 2.6.22, it doesn't actually work there due to a bug, you'd need to
pull a couple of patches from 2.6.25 if you wanted it to work with
older kernels. Keep in mind that you'll only need defio if you want to
mmap the framebuffer. If you just want standard open/read/write/close
access to an SPI framebuffer, adding a plain fbdev driver will be fine
for you.

Regards,
jaya
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