Beagleboard BSP Framebuffer

Joel Sherrill joel at rtems.org
Sun Mar 10 23:31:10 UTC 2019


The MINIX license is BSD with advertising clause as I read it. That is less
preferable to a 2-paragraph BSD license that you are likely to find in
Freebase. Try there.

It is usable in RTEMS though. We just try to avoid pushing the advertising
requirement



On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 12:47 PM Vijay Kumar Banerjee <
vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 12:35 AM Vijay Kumar Banerjee <
> vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was reading up and trying to figure out the steps to achieve this
>> project. Here's
>> what I came up with :
>>
>> 1. BBB uses TD19988 HDMI Framer, so the first step is to get an HDMI
>> output,
>> read EDID info and set the videomode according to the info. After some
>> searching,
>> I found a driver in minix that might be helpful. Is the minix license
>> compatible?
>> (
>> https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix/blob/03ac74ede908465cc64c671bbd209e761dc765dc/LICENSE
>> )
>>
>> 2. Set the values of structs from fb.h
>> 3. Write the fb.c using the functions from framebuffer.h ( I'm taking the
>> fb.c in raspberrypi
>> as example and the bsp-howto as a reference text)
>>
>> The above list is just an outline and I intend to explore/understand it
>> better and make a
>> proposal out of it.
>>
>> Does this list make sense to you?
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> I would really appreciate any remarks/comments or details you'd like to
>> add, it will help me understand it better.
>>
>> ping :)
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --vijay
>>
>
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