From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Chris McGee Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:37:33 +0000 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000cfdee50578090761" Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 potential target ports (Was: PDP11 (Was: Re: what heavy negativity!)) Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed427ed8-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000000000000cfdee50578090761 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > I do recall, vaguely, an Olimex comment about graphics being more > accessible, but I did not make a note, the little that stuck was that > some hardware manufacturer had embraced a slightly better standard > than VESA, or some such. There may be some hardware out there that > does not have "closed" graphics. > I thought that aijuboard got around this with an fpga implementation of a frame buffer and hdmi signalling, but I suppose that ramps up the price significantly as you'd need an fpga board in there and also an hdmi capable lcd. Otherwise, I wonder how difficult it would be to set up a framebuffer on the A64 like what was done with Richard's rpi code. Chris --000000000000cfdee50578090761 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I do recall, vaguely, an Olimex comment about graphics being more
accessible, but I did not make a note, the little that stuck was that
some hardware manufacturer had embraced a slightly better standard
than VESA, or some such. There may be some hardware out there that
does not have "closed" graphics.

<= div>I thought that aijuboard got around this with an fpga implementation of= a frame buffer and hdmi signalling, but I suppose that ramps up the price = significantly as you'd need an fpga board in there and also an hdmi cap= able lcd. Otherwise, I wonder how difficult it would be to set up a framebu= ffer on the A64 like what was done with Richard's rpi code.

Chris
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