HDMI output on Beaglebone black

[Oleksandr Tymoshenko]

On 2013-12-26, at 6:52 PM, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 26, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo at bluezbox.com> wrote:
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>> On 2013-12-25, at 9:08 PM, "Lundberg, Johannes" <johannes at brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote:
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>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> According to the readme for Beaglebone Black in crochet-freebsd there is no
>>> support for HMDI output yet (as of Dec 2013).
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know what is required to make this work?
>> 
>> You need to write driver for NXP TDA19988 HDMI (LCD to HDMI converter), driver 
>> for LCD controller and vt/syscons wrapper. Also properly pinmux LCD pins in .dts.
> 
> Does newcons make this any simpler?

Hardware part - no. vt/syscons - probably. At least I think so, I haven't caught up to the 
latest stuff yet but AFAIR whole point of newcons was to make console/framebuffer 
drivers more sane.