Subject: Re: wscons support for various framebuffers (questions from NetBSD sparc newbie)
To: NetBSD/sparc Discussion List <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Michael <macallan1888@gmail.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/03/2007 17:56:52
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Hello,

On Mar 3, 2007, at 16:57, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> At Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:52:49 -0500,
> Michael Lorenz wrote:
>>
>> You know that xfree86 uses /dev/fb* to talk to sbus and upa devices, 
>> do
>> you?
>
> I looked at the drivers/sunbw2/bw2_driver.c code, and it seems to probe
> the bus, etc. instead of just opening the right /dev/fb* and trying to
> use it.  I definitely don't want it to be able to read anything but the
> framebuffer hardware through the channels of the proper driver.

Then you should probably read the XFree86's SBus code.

have fun
Michael
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