Edward Rosten | 7 Jun 2008 00:36

Re: Any experience with CFXGA?

> I've started digging through the source code for several of the drivers.
>
> It also seems from the datasheet that the only thing this card can do is
> blit rectangles. I suppose a minimalist ioctl interface which accepts a 
> pointer to (x,y), (width, height) and a pointer to data might do the trick.
>
> I think for the moment, I'm going to try to write an ioctl to write a pixel 
> in to the framebuffer. I have a question related to this. Which device node 
> do you ioctl to call cfxga_ioctl? I'm assuming for the moment it is ttyD0 (as 
> related to the text above).

OK, forget the pixel writing. I've just found out why it is the way it is. 
Apparently you can only mmap 2048 bytes over CF (11 address lines, not 26 
on PCMCIA). OK, back to figuring out the blie "engine".

-Ed

> -Ed


Gmane