[Oberon] FPGA - Display.Mod 4-bit colour

[Jörg]

Tomas

No. The current Display subsystem in ProjectOberon is not prepared for different "video drivers".
You would have to re-write the Display subsystem to be object oriented.
With such an approach, all Display procedures Dot, CopyPattern... are procedure variables to be initialized with the correct procedures of the chosen "video driver".
Basically, Display can then be seen as kind of dispatcher module for the underlying video driver.

But most probably the easiest is to keep the interface of your two Display modules identical.
If so, compile DisplayBW.Mod (implementing MODULE Display;) and rename Display.rsc to DisplayBW.rsc
Then compile DisplayColor.Mod (also implementing MODULE Display;) and rename Display.rsc to DisplayColor.rsc

Now, the two files DisplayBW.rsc and DisplayColor.rsc are different implementations of Display having identical keys.
Before booting, you have to copy the correct DisplayXY.rsc to Display.rsc

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Jörg

Am 01.10.18, 21:41 schrieb "Oberon im Auftrag von Tomas Kral" <oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch im Auftrag von thomas.kral at email.cz>:

    > I believe the white now truly is {0,1,2,3} = 15, rather than {0} = 1.
    > But changing it, would invalidate clients, making a different import
    > KEY.
    
    Hi,
    
    Now I have two display modules, `Display.Mod' and `Display2.Mod'
    handling 1-bit and 4-bit colour respectively.
    
    While there could be a single driver `vid.v' selecting the mode by a
    switch e.g. swi[6], adjusting video base accordingly. 
    
    Can the system somehow boot with either `Display' or `Display2'
    based on the swi[6]?
    
    `Display' is imported by other modules `Oberon',`Viewers',..
    
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