Currently fbcon claims fbdevs as soon as they are registered and takes over
the console as soon as the first fbdev gets registered.
This behavior is undesirable in cases where a smooth graphical bootup is
desired, in such cases we typically want the contents of the framebuffer
(typically a vendor logo) to stay in place as is.
The current solution for this problem (on embedded systems) is to not
enable fbcon.
This commit adds a new FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER config option,
which when enabled defers fbcon taking over the console from the dummy
console until the first text is displayed on the console. Together with the
"quiet" kernel commandline option, this allows fbcon to still be used
together with a smooth graphical bootup, having it take over the console as
soon as e.g. an error message is logged.
Note the choice to detect the first console output in the dummycon driver,
rather then handling this entirely inside the fbcon code, was made after
2 failed attempts to handle this entirely inside the fbcon code. The fbcon
code is woven quite tightly into the console code, making this to only
feasible option.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Update list of available compiled-in fonts in lib/fonts/:
add 6x10 and drop RomanLarge (which was reverted 12 years ago).
Also sort the list alphabetically.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # v1
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This removes the restriction on the value range of the fbcon=margin:
parameter. The color value really depends on the driver being used.
Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
[b.zolnierkie: ported over fbcon changes]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
This adds a new command line option to select the fbcon margin color.
The motivation for this is screens where black does not blend into the
physical surroundings of the screen. For example, using an LCD (not the
backlit kind), white text on a black background is hard to read, so
inverting the colors is preferred. However, when you do this, most of the
screen is filled with white but the margins are still filled with black.
This makes a big, black, backwards 'L' on the screen. By setting
fbcon=margin:7, the margins will be filled with white and the LCD looks as
expected.
Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
[b.zolnierkie: ported over fbcon changes]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
This patch allows the user to disable write combined mapping
of the efifb framebuffer console using an nowc option.
A customer noticed major slowdowns while logging to the console
with write combining enabled, on other tasks running on the same
CPU. (10x or greater slow down on all other cores on the same CPU
as is doing the logging).
I reproduced this on a machine with dual CPUs.
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v3 @ 1.90GHz (6 core)
I wrote a test that just mmaps the pci bar and writes to it in
a loop, while this was running in the background one a single
core with (taskset -c 1), building a kernel up to init/version.o
(taskset -c 8) went from 13s to 133s or so. I've yet to explain
why this occurs or what is going wrong I haven't managed to find
a perf command that in any way gives insight into this.
11,885,070,715 instructions # 1.39 insns per cycle
vs
12,082,592,342 instructions # 0.13 insns per cycle
is the only thing I've spotted of interest, I've tried at least:
dTLB-stores,dTLB-store-misses,L1-dcache-stores,LLC-store,LLC-store-misses,LLC-load-misses,LLC-loads,\mem-loads,mem-stores,iTLB-loads,iTLB-load-misses,cache-references,cache-misses
For now it seems at least a good idea to allow a user to disable write
combining if they see this until we can figure it out.
Note also most users get a real framebuffer driver loaded when kms
kicks in, it just happens on these machines the kernel didn't support
the gpu specific driver.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
DocBook is mentioned several times at the documentation. Update
the obsolete references from it at the DocBook.
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Create the documentation for SM712. Mention all the supported modes and
how to use.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does
not contain 00-INDEX at all. Only outdated (with the notably exception
of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has
not been touched.
New 00-INDEX
- spi/* was added in a series of commits dating back to 2006
Added files (missing in (*/)00-INDEX)
- dmatest.txt was added by commit 851b7e16a0 ("dmatest: run test via
debugfs")
- this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555d6 ("percpu: add
documentation on this_cpu operations")
- ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a3710 ("mutex: Add
support for wound/wait style locks")
- bcache.txt was added by commit cafe563591 ("bcache: A block layer
cache")
- kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb404
("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU
kthreads")
- phy.txt was added by commit ff76496347 ("drivers: phy: add generic
PHY framework")
- block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc03 ("null_blk:
documentation")
- module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea3076 ("Add
Documentation/module-signing.txt file")
- assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb989501c ("Add a generic
associative array implementation.")
- arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo
- arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28e8
("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup")
- arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a77 ("ARM: Add
interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations")
- arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a0524 ("ARM:
7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode")
- arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770cf ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM
(Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3")
- arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d3e ("ARM: mcpm: Add
baremetal voting mutexes")
- blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit
4b60779d5e ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the
gptimers API")
- devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc68 ("dt:
Linux DT usage model documentation")
- fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f428 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based
format configuration API")
- fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a0498071 ("video, sm501: add
edid and commandline support")
- fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864af ("fbdev: move udlfb out
of staging.")
- filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae48
("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files")
- filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit
8a4c6e19cf ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd
configuration")
- ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c91413e ("ide: add
warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)")
- laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129accc
("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files")
- leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a7f ("LEDS: add
BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS")
- leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281cd ("leds: add
oneshot trigger")
- leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8e7 ("leds:
add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation")
- m68k/README.buddha was part of the initial repo
- networking/LICENSE.(qla3xxx|qlcnic|qlge) was added by commits
40839129f7, c4e84bde1d, 5a4faa8737
- networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812 ("docsrc: build
Documentation/ sources")
- networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe6b ("i40evf: add
driver to kernel build system")
- networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc36 ("xfrm: Add
file to document IPsec corner case")
- networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit
3cd7920a2b ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram")
- networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c39
("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O")
- networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e159
("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan)
- networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4ca7 ("net: introduce
ethernet teaming device")
- networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c5d ("vxlan:
virtual extensible lan")
- power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77a0 ("PM: Introduce
core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)")
- power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd56
("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver")
- RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68aa ("rcu:
Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats")
- s390/kvm.txt was added by 5ecee4b (KVM: s390: API documentation)
- s390/qeth.txt was added by commit b4d72c08b3 ("qeth: bridgeport
support - basic control")
- scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08ea9 ("sched: Add
documentation for bandwidth control")
- scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f356 ("[SCSI] advansys:
Move documentation to Documentation/scsi")
- scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174bd ("[SCSI] bfa: add
readme file")
- scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10ea ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add
driver documentation")
- scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464eb ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add
cxgb3i iSCSI driver.")
- scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf14f ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add
hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi")
- scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit
ca77329fb7 ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure")
- scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621de ("[SCSI] osd:
Documentation for OSD library")
- scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb11
("Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file")
- serial/driver was part of the initial repo
- serial/n_gsm.txt was added by commit 323e84122e ("n_gsm: add a
documentation")
- timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812 ("docsrc: build
Documentation/ sources")
- virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca3d ("KVM: s390:
diagnose call documentation")
- vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2cc ("mm:
dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct
page")
- w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4e2 ("w1: Add
1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100")
- w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382c6 ("hdq:
documentation for OMAP HDQ")
- x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86a8 ("x86, doc:
Documentation for early microcode loading")
- x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade4788 ("x86/doc:
mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp")
- x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4b5 ("x86-64: Document
some of entry_64.S")
- x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d874 ("x86: PAT
documentation")
Moved files
- arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by
commit 37b8304642 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of
the source code")
- efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in
commit 4172fe2f8a ("EFI stub documentation updates")
- laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit
efcfed9bad ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86")
- commit 5616c23ad9 ("x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from
Doc/x86/i386"):
* x86/usb-legacy-support.txt
* x86/boot.txt
* x86/zero_page.txt
- power/video_extension.txt was moved to acpi in commit 70e66e4df1
("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi")
Removed files (left in 00-INDEX)
- memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990aa ("memory.txt: remove
stray information")
- gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198cfc ("Documentation:
gpiolib: document new interface")
- networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae26
("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers")
- serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade0b ("tty: esp:
remove broken driver")
- s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f6693 ("[S390] remove tape
block docu")
- vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171d2 ("mm: documentation:
remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc")
- laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 020036678e ("acer-wmi:
Delete out-of-date documentation")
Typos/misc issues
- rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit
030d794bf4 ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS
authentication.")
- commit b88cf73d92 ("net: add missing entries to
Documentation/networking/00-INDEX")
* generic-hdlc.txt was added as generic_hdlc.txt
* spider_net.txt was added as spider-net.txt
- w1/master/mxc-w1 was added as mxc_w1 by commit a5fd9139f7 ("w1: add
1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31")
- s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a40
("[S390] Add Documentation/s390/00-INDEX.")
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [rcu bits]
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Corrected the word negtive to negative.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Huber <steffhip@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Schid <aircrach115@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Puels <simon.puels@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"Okay this is the big one, I was stalled on the fbdev pull req as I
stupidly let fbdev guys merge a patch I required to fix a warning with
some patches I had, they ended up merging the patch from the wrong
place, but the warning should be fixed. In future I'll just take the
patch myself!
Outside drm:
There are some snd changes for the HDMI audio interactions on haswell,
they've been acked for inclusion via my tree. This relies on the
wound/wait tree from Ingo which is already merged.
Major changes:
AMD finally released the dynamic power management code for all their
GPUs from r600->present day, this is great, off by default for now but
also a huge amount of code, in fact it is most of this pull request.
Since it landed there has been a lot of community testing and Alex has
sent a lot of fixes for any bugs found so far. I suspect radeon might
now be the biggest kernel driver ever :-P p.s. radeon.dpm=1 to enable
dynamic powermanagement for anyone.
New drivers:
Renesas r-car display unit.
Other highlights:
- core: GEM CMA prime support, use new w/w mutexs for TTM
reservations, cursor hotspot, doc updates
- dvo chips: chrontel 7010B support
- i915: Haswell (fbc, ips, vecs, watermarks, audio powerwell),
Valleyview (enabled by default, rc6), lots of pll reworking, 30bpp
support (this time for sure)
- nouveau: async buffer object deletion, context/register init
updates, kernel vp2 engine support, GF117 support, GK110 accel
support (with external nvidia ucode), context cleanups.
- exynos: memory leak fixes, Add S3C64XX SoC series support, device
tree updates, common clock framework support,
- qxl: cursor hotspot support, multi-monitor support, suspend/resume
support
- mgag200: hw cursor support, g200 mode limiting
- shmobile: prime support
- tegra: fixes mostly
I've been banging on this quite a lot due to the size of it, and it
seems to okay on everything I've tested it on."
* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (811 commits)
drm/radeon/dpm: implement vblank_too_short callback for si
drm/radeon/dpm: implement vblank_too_short callback for cayman
drm/radeon/dpm: implement vblank_too_short callback for btc
drm/radeon/dpm: implement vblank_too_short callback for evergreen
drm/radeon/dpm: implement vblank_too_short callback for 7xx
drm/radeon/dpm: add checks against vblank time
drm/radeon/dpm: add helper to calculate vblank time
drm/radeon: remove stray line in old pm code
drm/radeon/dpm: fix display_gap programming on rv7xx
drm/nvc0/gr: fix gpc firmware regression
drm/nouveau: fix minor thinko causing bo moves to not be async on kepler
drm/radeon/dpm: implement force performance level for TN
drm/radeon/dpm: implement force performance level for ON/LN
drm/radeon/dpm: implement force performance level for SI
drm/radeon/dpm: implement force performance level for cayman
drm/radeon/dpm: implement force performance levels for 7xx/eg/btc
drm/radeon/dpm: add infrastructure to force performance levels
drm/radeon: fix surface setup on r1xx
drm/radeon: add support for 3d perf states on older asics
drm/radeon: set default clocks for SI when DPM is disabled
...
The old code allowed very strange memory types. Now it works like
all the other video drivers: ioremap_wc is used unconditionally,
and MTRRs are set if PAT is unavailable (unless MTRR is disabled
by a module parameter).
UC, WB, and WT support is gone. If there are MTRR conflicts that prevent
addition of a WC MTRR, adding a non-conflicting MTRR is pointless; it's
better to just turn off MTRR support entirely.
As an added bonus, any MTRR added is freed on unload.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Usage of /etc/modprobe.conf file was deprecated by module-init-tools and
is no longer parsed by new kmod tool. References to this file are
replaced in Documentation, comments and Kconfig according to the
context.
There are also some references to the old /etc/modules.conf from 2.4
kernels that are being removed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This API will be used to support YUV frame buffer formats in a standard
way.
Last but not least, create a much needed fbdev API documentation and
document the format setting APIs.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Enables page fault based detection of mmap writes to the framebuffer,
which allows standard fbdev apps (like the generic fbdev xorg driver)
to work on DisplayLink devices.
Not all bugs are shaken out of the fb_defio path of udlfb, but it's
tantalizingly close, so this seems a good time to enable by default.
Alternatively, option can be disabled when running with an xorg driver
that can more directly communicate damaged regions of the framebuffer
via IOCTL. This is a simpler, higher perf option, when available.
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
By default, udlfb allocates a 2nd buffer to shadow what's across
the bus on the USB device. It can operate without this shadow,
but then it cannot tell which pixels have changed, and must send all.
Saves host memory, but worsens the USB 2.0 bus bottleneck.
This option allows users in very low memory situations (e.g.
bifferboard) to optionally turn off this shadow framebuffer.
Signed-off-by: Stuart Hopkins <stuart@linux-depot.com>
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
The video= parameter of the DRM drivers supports some additional flags that
the normal fb drivers do not have. They also allow to limit these flags to
specific outputs. Both things were previously undocumented.
Also the parsing of the line had some oddities:
-A lot of misplaced options were silently ignored or partly rejected instead
of stopping the parsing immediately
-The 'R' option is documented to follow the 'M' option if specified. It is not
documented that 'M' is needed to specify 'R' (also this is the case for normal
fb drivers). In fact the code is correct for normal fb drivers but wrong for
DRM ones.
The old code allowed 'R' only _before_ 'M' (since it parses backwards) and only
if 'M' is given at all which is not needed for the DRM drivers.
-the margins option ('m') was parsed but later ignored even if the later
functions support it.
-specifying multiple enable options at the same time did not lead to an error.
-specifying something bogus for horizontal resolution (i.e. other things as
digits) did not lead to an error but an invalid resolution was used.
If any errors are encountered the position of the faulting string is now
printed to the user and the complete mode is ignored. This gives much
more consistent error behaviour.
I also removed some useless assignments and changed the local flag variables
to be bool.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
- add commandline options:
sm501fb.mode:
Specify resolution as "<xres>x<yres>[-<bpp>][@<refresh>]"
sm501fb.bpp:
Specify bit-per-pixel if not specified mode
- Add support for encoding display mode information
in the device tree using verbatim EDID block.
If the "edid" entry in the "smi,sm501" node is present,
the driver will build mode database using EDID data
and allow setting the display modes from this database.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
cc: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org
cc: Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>
cc: Vincent Sanders <vince@simtec.co.uk>
cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
This is a simple update of the file Documentation/fb/00-INDEX based on
the directory content.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Jimenez Aguilar <googuy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
udlfb has undergone a fair bit of cleanup recently and is effectively at
the point where it can be liberated from staging purgatory and promoted
to a real driver.
The outstanding cleanups are all minor, with some of them dependent on
drivers/video headers, so these will be done incrementally from udlfb's
new home.
Requested-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* 'viafb-next' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6: (29 commits)
viafb: add initial VX900 support
viafb: fix hardware acceleration for suspend & resume
viafb: make suspend and resume work (on all machines?)
viafb: restore display on resume
Minimal support for viafb suspend/resume
viafb: use proper register for colour when doing fill ops
viafb: add documentation for proc interface
viafb: rename output devices
viafb: add a mapping of supported output devices
viafb: set sync polarity for all output devices
viafb: add function to change sync polarity per device
viafb: reduce I2C timeout and delay
viafb: enable I2C for CRT
viafb: fix i2c_transfer error handling
viafb: vt1636 cleanup
viafb: introduce per output device power management
viafb: limit LCD code impact
viafb: add interface for output device configuration
viafb: merge the remaining output path with enable functions
viafb: use new device routing
...
This patch adds documentation for the new proc interface that allows
modification of the output device configuration. Should be stable and
useful enough now for daily use.
Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Rename imacfb.txt to efifb.txt since imacfb was moved to efifb,and change
imacfb to efifb.
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We now support the VX855, and the VX800 is no longer unaccellerated.
viafb_video_dev was removed as it was useless.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw>
Cc: Scott Fang <ScottFang@viatech.com.cn>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The fbdev mailing lists at SourceForge have been migrated to a single
mailing list at kernel.org: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I would like to get rid of option CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD and just
always enable it. There are many reasons for doing this:
* CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y is what all x86 distributions do, so it
definitely works or we would know by now.
* Building the matroxfb driver with CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD not set
results in the following build warning:
drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_crtc2.c: In function 'matroxfb_dh_open':
drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_crtc2.c:265: warning: the address of 'matroxfb_global_mxinfo' will always evaluate as 'true'
drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_crtc2.c: In function 'matroxfb_dh_release':
drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_crtc2.c:285: warning: the address of 'matroxfb_global_mxinfo' will always evaluate as 'true'
This is nothing to be worried about, the driver will work fine, but build
warnings are still annoying.
* The trick to get multihead support without CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD,
which is described in the config help text, no longer works: you can't
load the same kernel module more than once.
* I fail to see how CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y would make the code
significantly slower, contrary to what the help text says. A few extra
parameters on the stack here and there can't really slow things down in
comaprison to the rest of the code, and register access.
* The driver built without CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD is larger than the
driver build with CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y by 8%.
* One less configuration option makes things simpler. We add options
all the time, being able to remove one for once is nice. It improves
testing coverage. And I don't think the Matrox adapters are still
popular enough to warrant overdetailed configuration settings.
* We should be able to unobfuscate the driver code quite a bit after
this change (patches follow.)
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
EP93xx video driver plus documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Mallon <ryan@bluewatersys.com>
Acked-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Daniele Venzano <linux@brownhat.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update the uvesafb documentation to accurately reflect the default options
used by the driver.
Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A tridentfb driver has all the functionality of the cyblafb driver without
the bugs of the latter.
Changes to the tridentfb driver:
- FBINFO_READS_FAST added to the tridentfb. The cyblafb used a blitter
for scrolling which is faster than color expansion on Cyberblade
chipsets. The blitter is slower on a discrete Blade3D core. Use the
blitter for scrolling in the tridentfb only for integrated Blade3D
cores. Now, scrolling speed is about equal for the tridentfb and the
cyblafb.
- a copyright notice addition is done on request of Jani Monoses (the
first author of the tridentfb).
Tested on AGP Blade3D card and PCChips
M787CLR motherboard: VIA C3 cpu +
VT8601 north bridge (aka Cyberblade/i1).
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Cc: "Jani Monoses" <jani@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
PXA27x and later processors support overlay1 and overlay2 on-top of the
base framebuffer (although under-neath the base is also possible). They
support palette and no-palette RGB formats, as well as YUV formats (only
available on overlay2). These overlays have dedicated DMA channels and
behave in a similar way as a framebuffer.
This heavily simplified and re-structured work is based on the original
pxafb_overlay.c (which is pending for mainline merge for a long time).
The major problems with this pxafb_overlay.c are (if you are interested
in the history):
1. heavily redundant (the control logics for overlay1 and overlay2 are
actually identical except for some small operations, which are now
abstracted into a 'pxafb_layer_ops' structure)
2. a lot of useless and un-tested code (two workarounds which are now
fixed on mature silicons)
3. cursorfb is actually useless, hardware cursor should not be used
this way, and the code was actually un-tested for a long time.
The code in this patch should be self-explanatory, I tried to add minimum
comments. As said, this is basically simplified, there are several things
still on the pending list:
1. palette mode is un-supported and un-tested (although re-using the
palette code of the base framebuffer is actually very easy now with
previous clean-up patches)
2. fb_pan_display for overlay(s) is un-supported
3. the base framebuffer can actually be abstracted by 'pxafb_layer' as
well, which will help further re-use of the code and keep a better
and consistent structure. (This is the reason I named it 'pxafb_layer'
instead of 'pxafb_overlay' or something alike)
See Documentation/fb/pxafb.txt for additional usage information.
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <ycmiao@ycmiao-hp520.(none)>
The amount of video memory size is decided according to the following
order:
1. <xres> x <yres> x <bits_per_pixel> by default, which is the backward
compatible way
2. size specified in platform data
3. size specified in module parameter 'options' string or specified in
kernel boot command line (see updated Documentation/fb/pxafb.txt)
And now since the memory is allocated from system memory, the pxafb_mmap
can be removed and the default fb_mmap() should be working all right.
Also, since we now have introduced the 'struct pxafb_dma_buff' for DMA
descriptors and palettes, the allocation can be separated cleanly.
NOTE: the LCD DMA actually supports chained transfer (i.e. page-based
transfers), to simplify the logic and keep the performance (with less
TLB misses when accessing from memory mapped user space), the memory
is allocated by alloc_pages_*() to ensures it's physical contiguous.
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <ycmiao@ycmiao-hp520.(none)>
Document the change from the old "mode" parameter to the "mode_option"
parameter.
Signed-off-by: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for Intel's 945GME graphics chip to the intelfb driver. I
have assumed that the 945GME is identical to the already-supported 945GM
apart from its PCI IDs; this is based on a quick look at the X driver for
these chips which seems to treat them identically.
The 945GME is used in the ASUS Eee 901, and I coded this in the hope that
I'd be able to use it to get a console at the native 1024x600 resolution
which is not known to the BIOS. I realised too late that the intelfb
driver does not support mode changing on laptops, so it won't be any
use for me.
Signed-off-by: Phil Endecott <spam_from_intelfb@chezphil.org>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Correct via_fb_ to viafb_ and remove the Kconfig part in viafb.txt.
viafb.modes: supported mode table
viafb.txt: documentation of viafb driver
Signed-off-by: Joseph Chan <josephchan@via.com.tw>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make the tridentfb documentation closer to current state of the tridentfb
driver. Fix also some formatting.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for the 965G and 965GM graphic chipsets to the intelfb driver. I
have a notebook with an Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics
Controller and with the attached patch the framebuffer comes up. I have
tested it a bit with DirectFB to make sure it is working stable.
I also have an Intel Mobile GM945 and I compared the results, the programming
interface of the 9xx series from Intel is mostly the same, so I think the
patch should add all the functionality which the 945GM has.
Signed-off-by: Maik Broemme <mbroemme@plusserver.de>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch splits metronomefb into the platform independent metronomefb and
the platform dependent am200epd.
Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
By default disable VT switch, but allow it to be overridden via the
'vt_switch' module arg.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
