Unless your hardware provides BIOS for driving it like a vga/svga you will probably need to write (get some else to write) a display driver specifically for it. For the Psion stuff the screen is just memory mapped and I wrote a simple driver to render text (all 8bit wide) directly onto it. This unfortunately requires a font to be held somewhere in the memory (in the kernel code segment for the psion though I'm thinking of moving this). I was thinking that it would be better to abstract a little from this and try and get a 'framebuffer' style interface going. This would help development on various platforms that don't have a vga/svga plug in card. Presumably all our frame buffer would need to do is simple text (console 8*8 ??) and dots & lines (micro-windows). Does any one else have any thoughts along these lines? Simon Wood Hardware Engineer Pace Micro Technology plc Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF Tel : +44(0)1274 532000 Fax: +44(0)1274 532029 This E-Mail and any attachments hereto are strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the sender by return and delete the message. You must not disclose, forward or copy this E-mail or attachments to any third party without the prior consent of the sender. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jakov af Wallby [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 12:57 PM > To: William Price > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Some q's > > On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, William Price wrote: > > > Yes,I have questions about this as well. I wish to someday run ELKS on > my > > Tandy HD 1000 > > laptop (8086 based) and its screen is LCD. Is anyone working on this, > or > > does anyone have any knowledge about it? > > William Price > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I believe we are discussing different things here. Biglinux boxes are by > some > people attached to LCD displays that use a serial interface. > Your Tandy, in contrast, probably treats the display as any graphics card, > for instance CGA compatible. (Or at least BIOS must handle text on it.) > Thus, you can probably use ELKS right away. > Boot it and see what happens. > > > Jakob >
