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diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/bugs b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/bugs deleted file mode 100644 index 9443a6d72cd..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/bugs +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -Bugs -==== - -I currently don't know of any bug. Please do send reports to: - - linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - - Knut_Petersen@t-online.de. - - -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/credits b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/credits deleted file mode 100644 index 0eb3b443dc2..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/credits +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ -Thanks to -========= - * Alan Hourihane, for writing the X trident driver - * Jani Monoses, for writing the tridentfb driver - * Antonino A. Daplas, for review of the first published - version of cyblafb and some code - * Jochen Hein, for testing and a helpfull bug report diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/documentation b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/documentation deleted file mode 100644 index bb1aac04842..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/documentation +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -Available Documentation -======================= - -Apollo PLE 133 Chipset VT8601A North Bridge Datasheet, Rev. 1.82, October 22, -2001, available from VIA: - - http://www.viavpsd.com/product/6/15/DS8601A182.pdf - -The datasheet is incomplete, some registers that need to be programmed are not -explained at all and important bits are listed as "reserved". But you really -need the datasheet to understand the code. "p. xxx" comments refer to page -numbers of this document. - -XFree/XOrg drivers are available and of good quality, looking at the code -there is a good idea if the datasheet does not provide enough information -or if the datasheet seems to be wrong. - diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/fb.modes b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/fb.modes deleted file mode 100644 index fe0e5223ba8..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/fb.modes +++ /dev/null @@ -1,154 +0,0 @@ -# -# Sample fb.modes file -# -# Provides an incomplete list of working modes for -# the cyberblade/i1 graphics core. -# -# The value 4294967256 is used instead of -40. Of course, -40 is not -# a really reasonable value, but chip design does not always follow -# logic. Believe me, it's ok, and it's the way the BIOS does it. -# -# fbset requires 4294967256 in fb.modes and -40 as an argument to -# the -t parameter. That's also not too reasonable, and it might change -# in the future or might even be differt for your current version. -# - -mode "640x480-50" - geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 - timings 47619 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 -endmode - -mode "640x480-60" - geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 - timings 39682 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 -endmode - -mode "640x480-70" - geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 - timings 34013 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 -endmode - -mode "640x480-72" - geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 - timings 33068 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 -endmode - -mode "640x480-75" - geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 - timings 31746 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 -endmode - -mode "640x480-80" - geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 - timings 29761 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 -endmode - -mode "640x480-85" - geometry 640 480 2048 4096 8 - timings 28011 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3 -endmode - -mode "800x600-50" - geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 - timings 30303 96 24 14 0 136 11 -endmode - -mode "800x600-60" - geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 - timings 25252 96 24 14 0 136 11 -endmode - -mode "800x600-70" - geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 - timings 21645 96 24 14 0 136 11 -endmode - -mode "800x600-72" - geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 - timings 21043 96 24 14 0 136 11 -endmode - -mode "800x600-75" - geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 - timings 20202 96 24 14 0 136 11 -endmode - -mode "800x600-80" - geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 - timings 18939 96 24 14 0 136 11 -endmode - -mode "800x600-85" - geometry 800 600 2048 4096 8 - timings 17825 96 24 14 0 136 11 -endmode - -mode "1024x768-50" - geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 - timings 19054 144 24 29 0 120 3 -endmode - -mode "1024x768-60" - geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 - timings 15880 144 24 29 0 120 3 -endmode - -mode "1024x768-70" - geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 - timings 13610 144 24 29 0 120 3 -endmode - -mode "1024x768-72" - geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 - timings 13232 144 24 29 0 120 3 -endmode - -mode "1024x768-75" - geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 - timings 12703 144 24 29 0 120 3 -endmode - -mode "1024x768-80" - geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 - timings 11910 144 24 29 0 120 3 -endmode - -mode "1024x768-85" - geometry 1024 768 2048 4096 8 - timings 11209 144 24 29 0 120 3 -endmode - -mode "1280x1024-50" - geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 - timings 11114 232 16 39 0 160 3 -endmode - -mode "1280x1024-60" - geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 - timings 9262 232 16 39 0 160 3 -endmode - -mode "1280x1024-70" - geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 - timings 7939 232 16 39 0 160 3 -endmode - -mode "1280x1024-72" - geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 - timings 7719 232 16 39 0 160 3 -endmode - -mode "1280x1024-75" - geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 - timings 7410 232 16 39 0 160 3 -endmode - -mode "1280x1024-80" - geometry 1280 1024 2048 4096 8 - timings 6946 232 16 39 0 160 3 -endmode - -mode "1280x1024-85" - 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 deleted file mode 100644 index 8d15d5dfc6b..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/performance +++ /dev/null @@ -1,79 +0,0 @@ -Speed -===== - -CyBlaFB is much faster than tridentfb and vesafb. Compare the performance data -for mode 1280x1024-[8,16,32]@61 Hz. - -Test 1: Cat a file with 2000 lines of 0 characters. -Test 2: Cat a file with 2000 lines of 80 characters. -Test 3: Cat a file with 2000 lines of 160 characters. - -All values show system time use in seconds, kernel 2.6.12 was used for -the measurements. 2.6.13 is a bit slower, 2.6.14 hopefully will include a -patch that speeds up kernel bitblitting a lot ( > 20%). - -+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------+ -| | not accelerated | -| TRIDENTFB +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ -| of 2.6.12 | 8 bpp | 16 bpp | 32 bpp | -| | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan | -+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ -| Test 1 | 4.31 | 4.33 | 6.05 | 12.81 | ---- | ---- | -| Test 2 | 67.94 | 5.44 | 123.16 | 14.79 | ---- | ---- | -| Test 3 | 131.36 | 6.55 | 240.12 | 16.76 | ---- | ---- | -+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ -| Comments | | | completely bro- | -| | | | ken, monitor | -| | | | switches off | -+-----------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ - - -+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------+ -| | accelerated | -| TRIDENTFB +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ -| of 2.6.12 | 8 bpp | 16 bpp | 32 bpp | -| | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan | -+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ -| Test 1 | ---- | ---- | 20.62 | 1.22 | ---- | ---- | -| Test 2 | ---- | ---- | 22.61 | 3.19 | ---- | ---- | -| Test 3 | ---- | ---- | 24.59 | 5.16 | ---- | ---- | -+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ -| Comments | broken, writing | broken, ok only | completely bro- | -| | to wrong places | if bgcolor is | ken, monitor | -| | on screen + bug | black, bug in | switches off | -| | in fillrect() | fillrect() | | -+-----------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ - - -+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------+ -| | not accelerated | -| VESAFB +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ -| of 2.6.12 | 8 bpp | 16 bpp | 32 bpp | -| | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan | -+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ -| Test 1 | 4.26 | 3.76 | 5.99 | 7.23 | ---- | ---- | -| Test 2 | 65.65 | 4.89 | 120.88 | 9.08 | ---- | ---- | -| Test 3 | 126.91 | 5.94 | 235.77 | 11.03 | ---- | ---- | -+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ -| Comments | vga=0x307 | vga=0x31a | vga=0x31b not | -| | fh=80kHz | fh=80kHz | supported by | -| | fv=75kHz | fv=75kHz | video BIOS and | -| | | | hardware | -+-----------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ - - -+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------+ -| | accelerated | -| CYBLAFB +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ -| | 8 bpp | 16 bpp | 32 bpp | -| | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan | noypan | ypan | -+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ -| Test 1 | 8.02 | 0.23 | 19.04 | 0.61 | 57.12 | 2.74 | -| Test 2 | 8.38 | 0.55 | 19.39 | 0.92 | 57.54 | 3.13 | -| Test 3 | 8.73 | 0.86 | 19.74 | 1.24 | 57.95 | 3.51 | -+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ -| Comments | | | | -| | | | | -| | | | | -| | | | | -+-----------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/todo b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/todo deleted file mode 100644 index c5f6d0eae54..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/todo +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -TODO / Missing features -======================= - -Verify LCD stuff "stretch" and "center" options are - completely untested ... this code needs to be - verified. As I don't have access to such - hardware, please contact me if you are - willing run some tests. - -Interlaced video modes The reason that interleaved - modes are disabled is that I do not know - the meaning of the vertical interlace - parameter. Also the datasheet mentions a - bit d8 of a horizontal interlace parameter, - but nowhere the lower 8 bits. Please help - if you can. - -low-res double scan modes Who needs it? - -accelerated color blitting Who needs it? The console driver does use color - blitting for nothing but drawing the penguine, - everything else is done using color expanding - blitting of 1bpp character bitmaps. - -ioctls Who needs it? - -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 deleted file mode 100644 index a39bb3d402a..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/usage +++ /dev/null @@ -1,217 +0,0 @@ -CyBlaFB is a framebuffer driver for the Cyberblade/i1 graphics core integrated -into the VIA Apollo PLE133 (aka vt8601) south bridge. It is developed and -tested using a VIA EPIA 5000 board. - -Cyblafb - compiled into the kernel or as a module? -================================================== - -You might compile cyblafb either as a module or compile it permanently into the -kernel. - -Unless you have a real reason to do so you should not compile both vesafb and -cyblafb permanently into the kernel. It's possible and it helps during the -developement cycle, but it's useless and will at least block some otherwise -usefull memory for ordinary users. - -Selecting Modes -=============== - - Startup Mode - ============ - - First of all, you might use the "vga=???" boot parameter as it is - documented in vesafb.txt and svga.txt. Cyblafb will detect the video - mode selected and will use the geometry and timings found by - inspecting the hardware registers. - - video=cyblafb vga=0x317 - - Alternatively you might use a combination of the mode, ref and bpp - parameters. If you compiled the driver into the kernel, add something - like this to the kernel command line: - - video=cyblafb:1280x1024,bpp=16,ref=50 ... - - If you compiled the driver as a module, the same mode would be - selected by the following command: - - modprobe cyblafb mode=1280x1024 bpp=16 ref=50 ... - - 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 - ======================== - - You might use fbset to change the video mode, see "man fbset". Cyblafb - generally does assume that you know what you are doing. But it does - some checks, especially those that are needed to prevent you from - damaging your hardware. - - - only 8, 16, 24 and 32 bpp video modes are accepted - - interlaced video modes are not accepted - - double scan video modes are not accepted - - 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 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 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. 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, 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 - you will see a vertical area, about two characters wide, with only - much darker characters than the other characters on the screen. - Cyblafb does allow that mode to be set, as it does not violate the - official specifications. It would need a lot of code to reliably sort - out all invalid modes, playing around with the margin values will - give a valid mode quickly. And if cyblafb would detect such an invalid - mode, should it silently alter the requested values or should it - report an error? Both options have some pros and cons. As stated - above, none of the startup modes are affected, and if you set - verbosity to 1 or higher, cyblafb will print the fbset command that - would be needed to program that mode using fbset. - - -Other Parameters -================ - - -crt don't autodetect, assume monitor connected to - standard VGA connector - -fp don't autodetect, assume flat panel display - connected to flat panel monitor interface - -nativex inform driver about native x resolution of - flat panel monitor connected to special - interface (should be autodetected) - -stretch stretch image to adapt low resolution modes to - higer resolutions of flat panel monitors - connected to special interface - -center center image to adapt low resolution modes to - higer resolutions of flat panel monitors - connected to special interface - -memsize use if autodetected memsize is wrong ... - should never be necessary - -nopcirr disable PCI read retry -nopciwr disable PCI write retry -nopcirb disable PCI read bursts -nopciwb disable PCI write bursts - -bpp bpp for specified modes - valid values: 8 || 16 || 24 || 32 - -ref refresh rate for specified mode - valid values: 50 <= ref <= 85 - -mode 640x480 or 800x600 or 1024x768 or 1280x1024 - if not specified, the startup mode will be detected - and used, so you might also use the vga=??? parameter - described in vesafb.txt. If you do not specify a mode, - bpp and ref parameters are ignored. - -verbosity 0 is the default, increase to at least 2 for every - bug report! - -Development hints -================= - -It's much faster do compile a module and to load the new version after -unloading the old module than to compile a new kernel and to reboot. So if you -try to work on cyblafb, it might be a good idea to use cyblafb as a module. -In real life, fast often means dangerous, and that's also the case here. If -you introduce a serious bug when cyblafb is compiled into the kernel, the -kernel will lock or oops with a high probability before the file system is -mounted, and the danger for your data is low. If you load a broken own version -of cyblafb on a running system, the danger for the integrity of the file -system is much higher as you might need a hard reset afterwards. Decide -yourself. - -Module unloading, the vfb method -================================ - -If you want to unload/reload cyblafb using the virtual framebuffer, you need -to enable vfb support in the kernel first. After that, load the modules as -shown below: - - modprobe vfb vfb_enable=1 - modprobe fbcon - modprobe cyblafb - fbset -fb /dev/fb1 1280x1024-60 -vyres 2662 - con2fb /dev/fb1 /dev/tty1 - ... - -If you now made some changes to cyblafb and want to reload it, you might do it -as show below: - - con2fb /dev/fb0 /dev/tty1 - ... - rmmod cyblafb - modprobe cyblafb - con2fb /dev/fb1 /dev/tty1 - ... - -Of course, you might choose another mode, and most certainly you also want to -map some other /dev/tty* to the real framebuffer device. You might also choose -to compile fbcon as a kernel module or place it permanently in the kernel. - -I do not know of any way to unload fbcon, and fbcon will prevent the -framebuffer device loaded first from unloading. [If there is a way, then -please add a description here!] - -Module unloading, the vesafb method -=================================== - -Configure the kernel: - - <*> Support for frame buffer devices - [*] VESA VGA graphics support - <M> Cyberblade/i1 support - -Add e.g. "video=vesafb:ypan vga=0x307" to the kernel parameters. The ypan -parameter is important, choose any vga parameter you like as long as it is -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 - con2fb /dev/fb1 /dev/tty1 - -Unloading cyblafb works without problems after you assign vesafb to all -ttys again, e.g.: - - con2fb /dev/fb0 /dev/tty1 - rmmod cyblafb diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/whatsnew b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/whatsnew deleted file mode 100644 index 76c07a26e04..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/whatsnew +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -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. diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/whycyblafb b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/whycyblafb deleted file mode 100644 index a123bc11e69..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/whycyblafb +++ /dev/null @@ -1,85 +0,0 @@ -I tried the following framebuffer drivers: - - - TRIDENTFB is full of bugs. Acceleration is broken for Blade3D - graphics cores like the cyberblade/i1. It claims to support a great - number of devices, but documentation for most of these devices is - unfortunately not available. There is _no_ reason to use tridentfb - for cyberblade/i1 + CRT users. VESAFB is faster, and the one - advantage, mode switching, is broken in tridentfb. - - - VESAFB is used by many distributions as a standard. Vesafb does - not support mode switching. VESAFB is a bit faster than the working - configurations of TRIDENTFB, but it is still too slow, even if you - use ypan. - - - EPIAFB (you'll find it on sourceforge) supports the Cyberblade/i1 - graphics core, but it still has serious bugs and developement seems - to have stopped. This is the one driver with TV-out support. If you - do need this feature, try epiafb. - -None of these drivers was a real option for me. - -I believe that is unreasonable to change code that announces to support 20 -devices if I only have more or less sufficient documentation for exactly one -of these. The risk of breaking device foo while fixing device bar is too high. - -So I decided to start CyBlaFB as a stripped down tridentfb. - -All code specific to other Trident chips has been removed. After that there -were a lot of cosmetic changes to increase the readability of the code. All -register names were changed to those mnemonics used in the datasheet. Function -and macro names were changed if they hindered easy understanding of the code. - -After that I debugged the code and implemented some new features. I'll try to -give a little summary of the main changes: - - - calculation of vertical and horizontal timings was fixed - - - video signal quality has been improved dramatically - - - acceleration: - - - fillrect and copyarea were fixed and reenabled - - - color expanding imageblit was newly implemented, color - imageblit (only used to draw the penguine) still uses the - generic code. - - - init of the acceleration engine was improved and moved to a - place where it really works ... - - - sync function has a timeout now and tries to reset and - reinit the accel engine if necessary - - - fewer slow copyarea calls when doing ypan scrolling by using - undocumented bit d21 of screen start address stored in - CR2B[5]. BIOS does use it also, so this should be safe. - - - cyblafb rejects any attempt to set modes that would cause vclk - values above reasonable 230 MHz. 32bit modes use a clock - multiplicator of 2, so fbset does show the correct values for - pixclock but not for vclk in this case. The fbset limit is 115 MHz - for 32 bpp modes. - - - cyblafb rejects modes known to be broken or unimplemented (all - interlaced modes, all doublescan modes for now) - - - cyblafb now works independant of the video mode in effect at startup - time (tridentfb does not init all needed registers to reasonable - values) - - - switching between video modes does work reliably now - - - the first video mode now is the one selected on startup using the - vga=???? mechanism or any of - - 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 - - 8, 16, 24 or 32 bpp - - refresh between 50 Hz and 85 Hz, 1 Hz steps (1280x1024-32 - is limited to 63Hz) - - - pci retry and pci burst mode are settable (try to disable if you - experience latency problems) - - - built as a module cyblafb might be unloaded and reloaded using - the vfb module and con2vt or might be used together with vesafb - |