vt(4) support for AM335x

SAITOU Toshihide toshi at ruby.ocn.ne.jp
Wed Jan 28 15:03:54 UTC 2015


On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:56:20 +0200, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at ddteam.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:59:29 +0900 (JST)
> SAITOU Toshihide <toshi at ruby.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
>> I know that vt(4) support for AM335x is committed.
>> I confirm the Japanese character is displayed now.
>> Fantastic!
>> 
>> Is that mean the X11 for BBB is close at hand?
> 
> Hi SAITOU,
> 
> You can try xf86-video-scfb driver.
> vt(4) drivers for framebuffers expose to vt(4) info about their buffer,
> so generic module of vt(4) (called fbd) can give you access via /dev/fb
> node.

Oh! it gives me confidence.
I started to compile x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb a short
time ago... not finished, but today's BBB is so stable!

Thank you.
--
SAITOU Toshihide


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