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author | Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de> | 2006-01-09 15:04:20 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-09 10:00:36 -0800 |
commit | 44637a12f80b80157d9c1bc5b7d6ef09c9e05713 (patch) | |
tree | 17384805725f7b429685ba4cad0d9488d93f9f25 /Documentation/fb/cyblafb | |
parent | 8b78e83bfbc12f7e9bdefd400abdfde9e6c9ac51 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] Update cyblafb driver
This is a major update to the cyblafb framebuffer driver. Most
of the stuff has been tested in the mm tree.
Main advantages:
============
- vxres > xres support
- ywrap and xpan support
- much faster for almost all modes (e.g. 1280x1024-16bpp
draws more than 41 full screens of text instead of about 25
full screens of text per second on authors Epia 5000)
- module init/exit code fixed
- bugs triggered by console rotation fixed
- lots of minor improvements
- startup modes suitable for high performance scrolling
in all directions
This diff also contains a lot of white space fixes.
No side effects are possible, only one single graphics core is affected.
Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/fb/cyblafb')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fb/cyblafb/bugs | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fb/cyblafb/fb.modes | 57 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fb/cyblafb/performance | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fb/cyblafb/todo | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fb/cyblafb/usage | 33 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fb/cyblafb/whatsnew | 29 |
6 files changed, 81 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/bugs b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/bugs index f90cc66..9443a6d 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/bugs +++ b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/bugs @@ -11,4 +11,3 @@ Untested features All LCD stuff is untested. If it worked in tridentfb, it should work in cyblafb. Please test and report the results to Knut_Petersen@t-online.de. - diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/fb.modes b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/fb.modes index cf4351f..fe0e522 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/fb.modes +++ b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/fb.modes @@ -14,142 +14,141 @@ # mode "640x480-50" - geometry 640 480 640 3756 8 + geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 timings 47619 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 endmode mode "640x480-60" - geometry 640 480 640 3756 8 + geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 timings 39682 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 endmode mode "640x480-70" - geometry 640 480 640 3756 8 + geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 timings 34013 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 endmode mode "640x480-72" - geometry 640 480 640 3756 8 + geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 timings 33068 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 endmode mode "640x480-75" - geometry 640 480 640 3756 8 + geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 timings 31746 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 endmode mode "640x480-80" - geometry 640 480 640 3756 8 + geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 timings 29761 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 endmode mode "640x480-85" - geometry 640 480 640 3756 8 + geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 timings 28011 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 endmode mode "800x600-50" - geometry 800 600 800 3221 8 + geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 timings 30303 96 24 14 0 136 11 endmode mode "800x600-60" - geometry 800 600 800 3221 8 + geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 timings 25252 96 24 14 0 136 11 endmode mode "800x600-70" - geometry 800 600 800 3221 8 + geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 timings 21645 96 24 14 0 136 11 endmode mode "800x600-72" - geometry 800 600 800 3221 8 + geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 timings 21043 96 24 14 0 136 11 endmode mode "800x600-75" - geometry 800 600 800 3221 8 + geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 timings 20202 96 24 14 0 136 11 endmode mode "800x600-80" - geometry 800 600 800 3221 8 + geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 timings 18939 96 24 14 0 136 11 endmode mode "800x600-85" - geometry 800 600 800 3221 8 + geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 timings 17825 96 24 14 0 136 11 endmode mode "1024x768-50" - geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8 + geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 timings 19054 144 24 29 0 120 3 endmode mode "1024x768-60" - geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8 + geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 timings 15880 144 24 29 0 120 3 endmode mode "1024x768-70" - geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8 + geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 timings 13610 144 24 29 0 120 3 endmode mode "1024x768-72" - geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8 + geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 timings 13232 144 24 29 0 120 3 endmode mode "1024x768-75" - geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8 + geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 timings 12703 144 24 29 0 120 3 endmode mode "1024x768-80" - geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8 + geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 timings 11910 144 24 29 0 120 3 endmode mode "1024x768-85" - geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8 + geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 timings 11209 144 24 29 0 120 3 endmode mode "1280x1024-50" - geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8 + geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 timings 11114 232 16 39 0 160 3 endmode mode "1280x1024-60" - geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8 + geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 timings 9262 232 16 39 0 160 3 endmode mode "1280x1024-70" - geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8 + geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 timings 7939 232 16 39 0 160 3 endmode mode "1280x1024-72" - geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8 + geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 timings 7719 232 16 39 0 160 3 endmode mode "1280x1024-75" - geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8 + geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 timings 7410 232 16 39 0 160 3 endmode mode "1280x1024-80" - geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8 + geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 timings 6946 232 16 39 0 160 3 endmode mode "1280x1024-85" - geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8 + geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 timings 6538 232 16 39 0 160 3 endmode - diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/performance b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/performance index eb4e47a..8d15d5d 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/performance +++ b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/performance @@ -77,4 +77,3 @@ patch that speeds up kernel bitblitting a lot ( > 20%). | | | | | | | | | | +-----------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ - diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/todo b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/todo index 80fb2f8..c5f6d0e 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/todo +++ b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/todo @@ -22,11 +22,10 @@ accelerated color blitting Who needs it? The console driver does use color everything else is done using color expanding blitting of 1bpp character bitmaps. -xpanning Who needs it? - ioctls Who needs it? -TV-out Will be done later +TV-out Will be done later. Use "vga= " at boot time + to set a suitable video mode. ??? Feel free to contact me if you have any feature requests diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/usage b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/usage index e627c8f..a39bb3d 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/usage +++ b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/usage @@ -40,6 +40,16 @@ Selecting Modes None of the modes possible to select as startup modes are affected by the problems described at the end of the next subsection. + For all startup modes cyblafb chooses a virtual x resolution of 2048, + the only exception is mode 1280x1024 in combination with 32 bpp. This + allows ywrap scrolling for all those modes if rotation is 0 or 2, and + also fast scrolling if rotation is 1 or 3. The default virtual y reso- + lution is 4096 for bpp == 8, 2048 for bpp==16 and 1024 for bpp == 32, + again with the only exception of 1280x1024 at 32 bpp. + + Please do set your video memory size to 8 Mb in the Bios setup. Other + values will work, but performace is decreased for a lot of modes. + Mode changes using fbset ======================== @@ -54,20 +64,26 @@ Selecting Modes - if a flat panel is found, cyblafb does not allow you to program a resolution higher than the physical resolution of the flat panel monitor - - cyblafb does not allow xres to differ from xres_virtual - cyblafb does not allow vclk to exceed 230 MHz. As 32 bpp and (currently) 24 bit modes use a doubled vclk internally, the dotclock limit as seen by fbset is 115 MHz for those modes and 230 MHz for 8 and 16 bpp modes. + - cyblafb will allow you to select very high resolutions as + long as the hardware can be programmed to these modes. The + documented limit 1600x1200 is not enforced, but don't expect + perfect signal quality. - Any request that violates the rules given above will be ignored and - fbset will return an error. + Any request that violates the rules given above will be either changed + to something the hardware supports or an error value will be returned. If you program a virtual y resolution higher than the hardware limit, cyblafb will silently decrease that value to the highest possible - value. + value. The same is true for a virtual x resolution that is not + supported by the hardware. Cyblafb tries to adapt vyres first because + vxres decides if ywrap scrolling is possible or not. - Attempts to disable acceleration are ignored. + Attempts to disable acceleration are ignored, I believe that this is + safe. Some video modes that should work do not work as expected. If you use the standard fb.modes, fbset 640x480-60 will program that mode, but @@ -129,10 +145,6 @@ mode 640x480 or 800x600 or 1024x768 or 1280x1024 verbosity 0 is the default, increase to at least 2 for every bug report! -vesafb allows cyblafb to be loaded after vesafb has been - loaded. See sections "Module unloading ...". - - Development hints ================= @@ -195,7 +207,7 @@ a graphics mode. After booting, load cyblafb without any mode and bpp parameter and assign cyblafb to individual ttys using con2fb, e.g.: - modprobe cyblafb vesafb=1 + modprobe cyblafb con2fb /dev/fb1 /dev/tty1 Unloading cyblafb works without problems after you assign vesafb to all @@ -203,4 +215,3 @@ ttys again, e.g.: con2fb /dev/fb0 /dev/tty1 rmmod cyblafb - diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/whatsnew b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/whatsnew new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76c07a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/whatsnew @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +0.62 +==== + + - the vesafb parameter has been removed as I decided to allow the + feature without any special parameter. + + - Cyblafb does not use the vga style of panning any longer, now the + "right view" register in the graphics engine IO space is used. Without + that change it was impossible to use all available memory, and without + access to all available memory it is impossible to ywrap. + + - The imageblit function now uses hardware acceleration for all font + widths. Hardware blitting across pixel column 2048 is broken in the + cyberblade/i1 graphics core, but we work around that hardware bug. + + - modes with vxres != xres are supported now. + + - ywrap scrolling is supported now and the default. This is a big + performance gain. + + - default video modes use vyres > yres and vxres > xres to allow + almost optimal scrolling speed for normal and rotated screens + + - some features mainly usefull for debugging the upper layers of the + framebuffer system have been added, have a look at the code + + - fixed: Oops after unloading cyblafb when reading /proc/io* + + - we work around some bugs of the higher framebuffer layers. |