How to display the terminal through VIP

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Hi

My environment is DE0 board and uClinux-20110630.

I can boot the uClinux kernel and operate it.

I want the shell terminal displays on screen through DE0 VGA instead of screen on my host device

Althought I study a lot of information such as adding hardware of VGA controller and frame buffer into SOPC, I don't know how to connect with that.

Therefore I really need the design flow or studied direction to solve the problem

Could you give me some suggestion

Thank you very much

altera_forum · Answer

Excuse me. My English is very poor.  If you don't understand me what I said.  Please tell me.   Thank you very much  I really need your reply

altera_forum · Answer

You'll need to find info on 'dumb' frame buffer displays for Linux. There might be some stuff there for 'console' as well as X displays.

Otherwise you need to find a simple bitmap font and do it yourself!

Not that difficult provided you don't need to support any/many escape sequences.

If the 'console' is likely to be hidden, can be worth saving the raw character stream instead of the bitmap - much faster.

altera_forum · Answer

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You'll need to find info on 'dumb' frame buffer displays for Linux. There might be some stuff there for 'console' as well as X displays.

Otherwise you need to find a simple bitmap font and do it yourself!

Not that difficult provided you don't need to support any/many escape sequences.

If the 'console' is likely to be hidden, can be worth saving the raw character stream instead of the bitmap - much faster.

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I would study the key word "dumb".

Thank you for your reply.

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