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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

How to display the terminal through VIP

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 ...
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14 years ago

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.