Hi Yasushi,
On 02/15/2012 11:44 AM, Yasushi SHOJI wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wasn't sure what the "default framebuffer" you meant. so, would you
> clarify a bit?
>
For all display related activities, kernel uses the first framebuffer it
registers (/dev/fb0). I was referring to this as the 'default
framebuffer' and was thinking of a way to force the kernel to use
/dev/fb1 instead.
> At Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:56:06 +0530,
> Tushar Behera wrote:
>>
>> Currently the LCD FB is registered as /dev/fb0 and the HDMI FB is
>> registered as /dev/fb1. While booting up, by default /dev/fb0 is used as
>> the primary display device and the output is routed accordingly. To use
>> the HDMI display, we need to update /etc/X11/xorg.conf (and this needs
>> to be updated every time we update the file-system.)
>
> can you clarify what you mean by the primary display device, and
> who's output is routed to there? is it the kernel log, some boot
> splash, android or X?
>
Sorry for making this a little confusing ...
'primary display device' should be read as 'default framebuffer' as
explained above.
And looking at the problem a bit more, it seems more like a
configuration option of Android or X to decide which framebuffer they
use for display.
>> If we don't enable support for LCD FB, the display comes on HDMI during
>> boot-time, but again that is not desirable considering we want to use
>> both the LCD and HDMI with the same kernel binary.
>>
>> Is there any way where we can force the default frame-buffer (whether to
>> choose /dev/fb0 or /dev/fb1) during boot-time, might be through some
>> kernel command-line options?
>
> it seems like fbcon has a kernel param for tty mapping. does it help?
>
> taken from: Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt
>
>> 3. fbcon=map:<0123>
>>
>> This is an interesting option. It tells which driver gets mapped to
>> which console. The value '0123' is a sequence that gets repeated
>> until
>> the total length is 64 which is the number of consoles available. In
>> the above example, it is expanded to 012301230123... and the mapping
>> will be:
>>
>> tty | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...
>> fb | 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 ...
>>
>> ('cat /proc/fb' should tell you what the fb numbers are)
>>
>> One side effect that may be useful is using a map value that exceeds
>> the number of loaded fb drivers. For example, if only one driver is
>> available, fb0, adding fbcon=map:1 tells fbcon not to take over the
>> console.
>>
>> Later on, when you want to map the console the to the framebuffer
>> device, you can use the con2fbmap utility.
>
> BTW, last I checked, android uses /dev/fb0 directly; meaning framework
> source code has the string "/dev/fb0" planted deep inside. so under
> the android framework, it always displays to the device (LCD or HDMI)
> the kernel detected first.
>
Thanks for this info. That answers some of my questions.
> my two cents,
--
Tushar Behera
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