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20 years ago

VGA support in uclinux

hi all, I am trying to enable VGA support in uclinux (1.4 rel). In make menuconfig -> Device Drivers -> Graphics support, I found [] Support for frame buffer devices if I enalbe this s...
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20 years ago

I believe the lancelot core is Avalon compatible, so that is what he is probably using. Regarding the driver, there is no driver for it yet - on your board, do you have a separate video buffer, or is it all run from the same RAM (SDRAM, DDR?). If you don't have separate video memory, like SRAM, running linux and video at the same time will be very difficult. And as hippo mentioned, you still need a framebuffer driver..