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2008-04-28PM/gxfb: add hook to PM console layer that allows disabling of suspend VT switchAndres Salomon1-1/+2
Prior to suspend, we allocate and switch to a new VT; after suspend, we switch back to the original VT. This can be slow, and is completely unnecessary if the framebuffer we're using can restore video properly. This adds a hook that allows drivers to select whether or not to do this vt switch, and changes the gxfb driver to call this hook. It also adds a module param to gxfb to allow controlling of the vt switch (defaulting to no switch). (Note: I'm not convinced that console_sem is the best way to protect this, but we should probably have some form of locking..) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28gxfb: replace FBSIZE config option with a module parameterAndres Salomon1-0/+51
Use a command line option (vram) rather than hardcoding the vram size. LxFB already does this; it's useful for machines that can't query the BIOS for fb size. This patch originated from David Woodhouse, was modified by Jordan Crouse, and was then modified further by me. This also adds some gxfb documentation in Documentation/fb. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-20fbdev: defio and MetronomefbJaya Kumar2-0/+91
Implement support for the E-Ink Metronome controller. It provides an mmapable interface to the controller using defio support. It was tested with a gumstix pxa255 with Vizplex media using Xfbdev and various X clients such as xeyes, xpdf, xloadimage. This patch also fixes the following bug: Defio would cause a hang on write access to the framebuffer as the page fault would be called ad-infinitum. It fixes fb_defio by setting the mapping to be used by page_mkclean. Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06fb: defio nopageNick Piggin1-3/+3
Convert fb defio from nopage to fault. Switch from OOM to SIGBUS if the resource is not available. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-20typo fixesMatt LaPlante1-2/+2
Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases. Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both Kconfigs and documentation texts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-16fbdev: Update Documentation/fb/00-INDEXJesper Juhl1-9/+37
An update to Documentation/fb/00-INDEX is long overdue. This patch adds entries for new files in the directory and removes entries for files that no longer exist. The files are now also sorted alphabetically. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16uvesafb: documentationMichal Januszewski1-0/+188
Documentation for the uvesafb driver. Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-12pvr2fb: update Documentation/fb/pvr2fb.txtAdrian McMenamin1-9/+13
The current version is very old and does not correctly specify how to set the video mode. Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds4-13/+13
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits) sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8 MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8 general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8 documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8 Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8. remove broken URLs from net drivers' output Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/ fix file specification in comments drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc misc doc and kconfig typos Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text Fix occurrences of "the the " Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file. Fix more "deprecated" spellos. Fix "deprecated" typoes. ... Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.
2007-05-09arkfb: new framebuffer driver for ARK Logic cardsOndrej Zajicek1-0/+68
This patch adds fbdev driver for graphics cards with ARK Logic 2000PV graphics chip with ICS 5342 ramdac. [adaplas@gmail.com: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09vt8623fb: new framebuffer driver for VIA VT8623Ondrej Zajicek1-0/+64
This patch adds fbdev driver for graphics core in VIA VT8623 [adaplas@gmail.com: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8John Anthony Kazos Jr2-10/+10
Convert files within the Documentation directory to UTF-8. Adrian Bunk: small additional fixes Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09misc doc and kconfig typosMatt LaPlante1-1/+1
Fix various typos in kernel docs and Kconfigs, 2.6.21-rc4. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09Fix more "deprecated" spellos.Randy Dunlap1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-08s3fb: driver fixesOndrej Zajicek1-4/+8
This fixes broken fbcon on Virge VX in 24 bpp mode, and contains several other small updates. Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08fbdev: mm: Deferred IO supportJaya Kumar1-0/+75
This implements deferred IO support in fbdev. Deferred IO is a way to delay and repurpose IO. This implementation is done using mm's page_mkwrite and page_mkclean hooks in order to detect, delay and then rewrite IO. This functionality is used by hecubafb. [adaplas] This is useful for graphics hardware with no directly addressable/mappable framebuffer. Implementing this will allow the "framebuffer" to be accesible from user space via mmap(). Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] fbdev driver for S3 Trio/VirgeOndrej Zajicek1-0/+78
Add a driver for S3 Trio / S3 Virge. Driver is tested with most versions of S3 Trio and with S3 Virge/DX, on i386. (akpm: We kind-of have support for this hardware already, but... virgefb.c - amiga/zorro specific, - broken (according to Kconfig), - uses obsolete/nonexistent interface (struct display_switch) - recent Adrian Bunk's patch removes this driver S3triofb.c - ppc/openfirmware specific - minimal functionality - broken (according to Kconfig), - uses obsolete/nonexistent interface (struct display_switch) ) Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org> Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-10-04Documentation: remove duplicated wordsPaolo Ornati1-1/+1
Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small cleanups. Examples: "and and" --> "and" "in in" --> "in" "the the" --> "the" "the the" --> "to the" ... Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-04Fix typos in Documentation/: 'S'Matt LaPlante1-12/+12
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'S'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-04Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P'Matt LaPlante1-2/+2
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'N'-'P'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-04Fix typos in Documentation/: 'F'-'G'Matt LaPlante2-2/+2
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'F'-'G'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-04Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E'Matt LaPlante1-5/+5
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'D'-'E'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-04Fix some typos in Documentation/: 'A'Matt LaPlante1-1/+1
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'A'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03[PATCH] Documentation fixes in intel810.txtReiner Herrmann1-73/+75
Signed-off-by: Reiner Herrmann <reiner@reiner-h.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] intelfb: Documentation updatePh. Marek1-1/+9
Correct sample boot line and add a remark on mode setting. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-30Merge branch 'intelfb-patches' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+7
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/intelfb-2.6 * 'intelfb-patches' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/intelfb-2.6: intelfbhw.c: intelfbhw_get_p1p2 defined but not used intelfb: fix mtrr_reg signedness intelfb: update doc and Kconfig (supported devices) intelfb: add preliminary i2c support intelfb: add preliminary i2c support intelfb: add preliminary i2c support intelfb: add preliminary i2c support intelfb: add preliminary i2c support intelfb: add preliminary i2c support intelfb: add preliminary i2c support intelfb: add preliminary i2c support intelfb: add vsync interrupt support intelfb: add vsync interrupt support intelfb: add vsync interrupt support intelfb: add vsync interrupt support intelfb: add vsync interrupt support
2006-08-22intelfb: update doc and Kconfig (supported devices)Christian Merkle1-4/+7
According to drivers/video/intelfb/intelfb.h, the intelfb driver supportes the following devices: 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G/915GM/945G/945GM. So the description in drivers/video/Kconfig and the documentation in Documentation/fb/intelfb.txt is outdated. airlied: cleaned up some other obvious mistakes in intelfb.txt. Signed-off-by: Christian Merkle <mail@christian-merkle.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
2006-08-14[PATCH] add imacfb documentation and detectionEdgar Hucek1-0/+31
Add basic Machine detection to imacfb and some Ducumentation bits for imacfb. Signed-off-by: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] VT binding: Update documentationAntonino A. Daplas1-10/+59
Update Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt and Documentatin/console/console.txt to reflect the following changes: 1. sysfs attributes are relocated to /sys/class/vtconsole 2. feature is selectable in Kconfig 3. add sample scripts to fbcon.txt Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] VT binding: fbcon: Update documentationAntonino A. Daplas1-23/+50
Update Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt to reflect the following changes: 1. Simple illustration of the binding of the console down to individual framebuffer drivers 2. Usage of userspace tools to help with recovery of text console 3. How to use the attributes in /sys/class/tty/console to unload fbcon and the framebuffer drivers Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] Detaching fbcon: update documentationAntonino A. Daplas1-4/+100
Update Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt on the following: 1. sysfs attributes are now located in class/graphics/fbcon 2. instructions on how to attach, detach and/or unload fbcon Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09[PATCH] Update cyblafb driverKnut Petersen6-45/+81
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>
2005-11-09[PATCH] fbcon: Console Rotation - Add framebuffer console documentationAntonino A. Daplas1-0/+152
Add documentation as Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt describing the framebuffer console and its boot options. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] vesafb: Disable mtrr as the defaultAntonino A. Daplas1-2/+2
vesafb occassionally gets the size wrong when setting the mtrr. When X or DRI attempts to set the mtrr, it will fail due to range overlap significantly affecting their performance. Disable mtrr and let the user explicitly enable it with the mtrr:n option. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12[PATCH] i810fb: Update i810fb documentationAntonino A. Daplas1-26/+30
Update i810fb documentation to describe new features and configuration changes. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] fbdev: Add VESA Coordinated Video Timings (CVT) supportAntonino A. Daplas1-1/+72
The Coordinated Video Timings (CVT) is the latest standard approved by VESA concerning video timings generation. It addresses the limitation of GTF which is designed mainly for CRT displays. CRT's have a high blanking requirement (as much as 25% of the horizontal frame length) which artificially increases the pixelclock. Digital displays, on the other hand, needs to conserve the pixelclock as much as possible. The GTF also does not take into account the different aspect ratios in its calculation. The new function added is fb_find_mode_cvt(). It is called by fb_find_mode() if it recognizes a mode option string formatted for CVT. The format is: <xres>x<yres>[M][R][-<bpp>][<at-sign><refresh>][i][m] The 'M' tells the function to calculate using CVT. On it's own, it will compute a timing for CRT displays at 60Hz. If the 'R' is specified, 'reduced blanking' computation will be used, best for flatpanels. The 'i' and the 'm' is for 'interlaced mode' and 'with margins' respectively. To determine if CVT was used, check for dmesg for something like this: CVT Mode - <pix>M<n>[-R], ie: .480M3-R (800x600 reduced blanking) where: pix - product of xres and yres, in MB M - is a CVT mode n - the aspect ratio (3 - 4:3; 4 - 5:4; 9 - 16:9, 15:9; A - 16:10) -R - reduced blanking Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] framebuffer: new driver for cyberblade/i1 graphics coreKnut Petersen8-0/+596
This is a framebuffer driver for the Cyberblade/i1 graphics core. Currently tridenfb claims to support the cyberblade/i1 graphics core. This is of very limited truth. Even vesafb is faster and provides more working modes and a much better quality of the video signal. There is a great number of bugs in tridentfb ... but most often it is impossible to decide if these bugs are real bugs or if fixing them for the cyberblade/i1 core would break support for one of the other supported chips. Tridentfb seems to be unmaintained,and documentation for most of the supported chips is not available. So "fixing" cyberblade/i1 support inside of tridentfb was not an option, it would have caused numerous if(CYBERBLADEi1) else ... cases and would have rendered the code to be almost unmaintainable. A first version of this driver was published on 2005-07-31. A fix for a bug reported by Jochen Hein was integrated as well as some changes requested by Antonino A. Daplas. A message has been added to tridentfb to inform current users of tridentfb to switch to cyblafb if the cyberblade/i1 graphics core is detected. This patch is one logical change, but because of the included documentation it is bigger than 70kb. Therefore it is not sent to lkml and linux-fbdev-devel, Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-30[PATCH] vesafb: Document mtrr boot option usageAntonino A. Daplas1-1/+15
Document mtrr boot option usage to Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-22[PATCH] intelfb documentationSylvain Meyer1-0/+135
Add a small documentation of the driver parameters. Signed-off-by: Sylvain Meyer <sylvain.meyer@worldonline.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds16-0/+2145
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!