Crystalfontz LCD display from kernel?

[Daniel O'Connor]

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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