Messages in this thread | | | From | "Kendall Bennett" <> | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 1998 02:06:14 -0800 | Subject | Dynamically loaded fbcon drivers? |
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Hi All,
Some of you may be aware that we are currently collecting beta tester applications for the coming beta of our SciTech Display Doctor for Linux product. SDD for Linux incorporates our new SciTech Nucleus Graphics Architecture drivers, and as such I am investigating what it would take to make our device driver support work with fbcon for the Linux framebuffer console.
Now I am completely ignorant of how the fbcon stuff works in the latest kernels, but one of the things that we will need in order to support this is the ability access the file system so we can dynamically load our Nucleus drivers from disk. The code to load the drives simply relies upon standard C file I/O functions (which may not be available in the kernel, but some sort of file I/O must be?) and is pure, portable C code so that can compile for the kernel just fine. However when does the fbcon stuff get initialised, and can it be initialised late enough in the bootup sequence such that the device drivers for the console can be loaded from the file system? What sort of problems are we going to have to face getting our driver loading code working in the kernel?
Thanks!
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