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| author | marius <marius@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-09-02 20:15:21 +0000 |
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| committer | marius <marius@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-09-02 20:15:21 +0000 |
| commit | 20f3c95d3ccacf6f0964dcab56fd0cb5eac0b3a9 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c640ee86112b4b3c038f84e9efc791c6c985c76 /share | |
| parent | ba5297eb2dafb5db8d4225023f2e8ec899bade0c (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-20f3c95d3ccacf6f0964dcab56fd0cb5eac0b3a9.zip FreeBSD-src-20f3c95d3ccacf6f0964dcab56fd0cb5eac0b3a9.tar.gz | |
- s/UltraSparc/UltraSPARC/
- Add info about the requirement of OFW support.
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.sparc64/machfb.4 | 38 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.sparc64/machfb.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.sparc64/machfb.4 index 0173def..88d4c77 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.sparc64/machfb.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.sparc64/machfb.4 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\"- .\" Copyright (c) 2002 Jason L. Wright (jason@thought.net) -.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org> .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" from: OpenBSD: creator.4,v 1.20 2005/03/05 01:48:59 miod Exp .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd September 1, 2006 +.Dd September 2, 2006 .Dt MACHFB 4 sparc64 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ console driver. chips are very common as low-end graphics chips in .Tn PCI based -.Tn UltraSparc +.Tn UltraSPARC systems. They are found on-board in .Tn Sun Blade 100 , @@ -65,6 +65,38 @@ They are also used on add-on cards like the .Tn Sun PGX and .Tn Sun PGX64 . +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver requires the chip which it is supposed to drive to be also +supported by the +.Tn Open Firmware , +either by a built-in FCode driver package of the on-board firmware +or by additional FCode on the add-on card. +As a matter of course +.Tn UltraSPARC +systems with an on-board +.Tn ATI Mach64 chip +also have a built-in FCode driver package for this chip. +There are also mainboards like the +.Tn Sun AX1105 +and +.Tn Sun AXi +boards however, +which have built-in FCode for certain +.Tn ATI Mach64 +chips although they are not equipped with an on-board one. +Mainboards with built-in FCode for certain +.Tn ATI Mach64 +chips can be used with any add-on card which is based on one of those +chips, +including cards which are equipped with x86 firmware and intended for +use in PCs. +Otherwise an add-on card which comes with its own FCode like the +.Tn Sun PGX +or +.Tn Sun PGX64 +has to be used. .Sh HARDWARE The .Nm |
