RE: Lite LCD on MBX860

For some reason, this request has come up a lot lately. we make an 860 board
and a video board with an Epson video controller on it.

The 860 does not have video out, but you can certainly attach a video chip
to it. We used the Epson SED1386 which is now called the S1D13806. You can
find the Linux driver at:
http://www.erd.epson.com/vdc/html/contents/S1D13806.htm#drivers

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: RSR - Dominioni Piero [mailto:pdominioni@rsr.it]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 2:40 AM
To: Dan Malek
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Litle LCD on MBX860



Hi all.
 I wanted to connect a LCD to a MPC823-based board and to use
microwindows too .

Dan Malek answered:

You aren't going to connect an LCD to the MBX860 and see anything.
There isn't any LCD controller on the 860.  You need an 823 or
some external graphics controller.

Correct.
But what happens when the externel controller is provided?
Is there a LinuxPPC driver for it?
Does the LCD device become such as a character device
(or something like that) that needs a suitable node in /dev
with its own driver to be registered?

I tryed to configure Wolfgang's 2.4.4-2001-11-24 kernel for
TQM860L and while (obviously) there is no LCD driver for
860, the framebuffer is still there...
Does it mean that anyway it is possible to use a LCD with MPC860?
Thank you for any answer!
Bye

Piero


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