On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 10:22:19PM +0200, Peter Teichmann wrote: > Hi, > > just an idea: We have a console driver for the Indy. I do not know how it > works > but I guess the Indy graphics device does not have a text mode so it should be > more or less framebuffer like. > > Shouldn't it be possible to implement a frame buffer device and use the > (unaccellerated) framebuffer X server? The necessary information should be > available to the person who wrote the Indy console. Perhaps it can also be > extracted from the source.
AFAIK the Indy/SGI Graphics Cards are even less/more - They dont present a memory block to the OS but only an OpenGL pipe. But i havnt had a look at it. The "Indy" console (Which is only available for the kernel) is based on the Prom - Therefor it is called "promcon.c" - There is a ARC Firmware callback for getting and printing characters. See arch/mips/arc/promcon.c and arch/mips/sgi/kernel/promcon.c or something. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-subject-2-change "Technology is a constant battle between manufacturers producing bigger and more idiot-proof systems and nature producing bigger and better idiots."
