Frame Buffer driver

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originally posted by nick@Dec 18 2006, 11:31 PM

is it possible to run linux and frame buffer from the same sdram?

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Yes. If you use Altera&#39;s VGA core, you will surely run Linux and frame buffer from the same sdram.

You may look at the wiki page, and linux.2.6.x/Documents,

http://nioswiki.jot.com/wikihome/operating...duleprogarmming (http://nioswiki.jot.com/wikihome/operatingsystems/moduleprogarmming)

You may find many frame buffer drivers in linux-2.6.x/drivers/video.

You may use vfb.c as a starting point.