Re: Crystalfontz LCD display from kernel?

From: Daniel O'Connor (doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au)
Date: 09/23/04

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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:01:29 +0930

    On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 04:18, Tim Pushor wrote:
    > My question is, I would really like to be able to display various things
    > during startup, shutdown, and once shutdown is complete to the LCD. I
    > assume I would have to modify the kernel for this. I done lots of C
    > programming, and hardware interface programming in C and assembler, but
    > never any UNIX kernel programming.
    >
    > First of all, is this doable? Also, would it be easier (from the kernel
    > programming perspective) to do this via USB or Serial?

    Opening a device etc from the kernel would be moderatly painful..
    It write a userland program which did it first and then port it. 

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