Subject: Re: more tested peripherals on the TS-7200
To: Jesse Off <joff@embeddedARM.com>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-arm
Date: 01/09/2005 18:38:25
"Jesse Off" <joff@embeddedARM.com> writes:
> Ok, I commited more work for the TS-7200 to NetBSD-current today and was
> able to write drivers/test existing support for the following other
> peripherals:
>
> * Hitachi HD44780 LCD driver, /dev/tslcd0. You can just
> echo -n "foo" > /dev/tslcd0, or do more complex manipulations using
> ioctl()'s if you connect an LCD up to the LCD header. Driver stolen from
> NetBSD/cobalt.
Does this attach itself as a wscons raw framebuffer? If it does, you
could run X on it with the wsfb driver (X driver, that is, not kernel
driver).
- Nathan