<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Further to a previous post (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-September/121647.html) I have managed to get all post output to appear on a display whilst my system is booting. As the system boots I can see the Linux penguin, and the verbose output from the kernel as it boots appearing on the screen.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;">The kernel shows a message "disabling irom" and then the screen is disabled.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">How can I set up my kernel so that it enables the display and outputs a console on tty0?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">My system has an MCS8144 processor, and I'm using Linux 2.6.24 (which was supplied as part of the BSP). I have contacted Moschip
many times about this problem, but they just don't answer.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">My boot arguments are root=/dev/mtdblock3 rootfstype=jffs2 rw console=ttyMCS console=tty0 CONSOLE=tty0 mem=64M@0x0 panic=4 MCS8142VGA=792</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">There is an fb device node: /dev/fb0<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px;
font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I have configure the kernel with the following options chosen:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;">Device drivers-->Character devices->Virtual terminal<br>
Device drivers-->Character devices-> Support for binding and unbinding console drivers<br>
Device drivers--> Graphics support--> Support for frame buffer devices -->Enable firmware EDID <br>
Device drivers--> Graphics support--> Support for frame buffer devices -->Enable Video Mode Handling Helpers<br>
Device drivers--> Graphics support--> Support for frame buffer devices -->MCS8142 FramBuffer Driver<br>
Device drivers--> Graphics support--> Console display driver support-->Framebuffer Console support<br>
Device drivers--> Graphics support--> Console display driver support-->Map the console to the primary display device <br>
Device drivers--> Graphics support--> Console display driver support-->Select compiled-in fonts</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><span>Can</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"> someone please suggest what I need to do to enable the frame buffer driver and display from within the kernel and direct the console to output to tty0</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;"><br><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"></span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;"><i><br></i></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Kind regards</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Andrew<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;
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