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2018-09-26uvesafb: Fix URLs in the documentationAdam Jackson1-2/+3
Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
2018-08-10Documentation/fb: corrections for fbcon.txtRandy Dunlap1-14/+15
Fix grammar, spacing, indentation, and Kconfig menu locations in fbcon.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
2018-06-28console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeoverHans de Goede1-0/+7
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>
2017-11-08documentation: fb: update list of available compiled-in fontsRandy Dunlap1-2/+2
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>
2017-09-04fbcon: remove restriction on margin colorDavid Lechner1-1/+1
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>
2017-08-18fbcon: add fbcon=margin:<color> command line optionDavid Lechner1-0/+7
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>
2017-07-31efifb: allow user to disable write combined mapping.Dave Airlie1-0/+6
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>
2017-05-16docs: update old references for DocBook from the documentationMauro Carvalho Chehab1-2/+2
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>
2016-05-10Documentation: fb: fix spelling mistakesEric Engestrom1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
2015-08-08Documentation/fb: add documentation for sm712fbSudip Mukherjee1-0/+31
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>
2014-05-05doc: spelling error changesCarlos Garcia2-2/+2
Fixed multiple spelling errors. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Carlos E. Garcia <carlos@cgarcia.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-02-11Documentation/: update 00-INDEX filesHenrik Austad1-0/+6
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 851b7e16a07d ("dmatest: run test via debugfs") - this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555d637 ("percpu: add documentation on this_cpu operations") - ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a371005 ("mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks") - bcache.txt was added by commit cafe56359144 ("bcache: A block layer cache") - kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb40410 ("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU kthreads") - phy.txt was added by commit ff764963479a ("drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework") - block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc0314 ("null_blk: documentation") - module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea307642 ("Add Documentation/module-signing.txt file") - assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb989501c26 ("Add a generic associative array implementation.") - arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo - arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28e839 ("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup") - arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a77fc ("ARM: Add interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations") - arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a05241d ("ARM: 7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode") - arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770cfdd ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM (Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3") - arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d3e05 ("ARM: mcpm: Add baremetal voting mutexes") - blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit 4b60779d5ea7 ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the gptimers API") - devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc681a ("dt: Linux DT usage model documentation") - fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f42879 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based format configuration API") - fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a049807105 ("video, sm501: add edid and commandline support") - fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864afd6 ("fbdev: move udlfb out of staging.") - filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae48a2 ("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files") - filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit 8a4c6e19cfed ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd configuration") - ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c91413ec6 ("ide: add warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)") - laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129accc21 ("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files") - leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a7f65 ("LEDS: add BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS") - leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281cde2 ("leds: add oneshot trigger") - leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8e705 ("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 40839129f779, c4e84bde1d59, 5a4faa873782 - networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build Documentation/ sources") - networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe6b32 ("i40evf: add driver to kernel build system") - networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc36e2 ("xfrm: Add file to document IPsec corner case") - networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit 3cd7920a2be8 ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram") - networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c3981 ("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O") - networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e1597f ("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan) - networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4ca7d0 ("net: introduce ethernet teaming device") - networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c5d2f ("vxlan: virtual extensible lan") - power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77a09a ("PM: Introduce core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)") - power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd56ea ("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver") - RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68aa2e ("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 b4d72c08b358 ("qeth: bridgeport support - basic control") - scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08ea9f7 ("sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control") - scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f35661 ("[SCSI] advansys: Move documentation to Documentation/scsi") - scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174bdb4 ("[SCSI] bfa: add readme file") - scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10eaf4 ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add driver documentation") - scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464ebc0 ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add cxgb3i iSCSI driver.") - scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf14f3c ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi") - scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit ca77329fb713 ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure") - scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621deca ("[SCSI] osd: Documentation for OSD library") - scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb111c ("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 323e84122ec6 ("n_gsm: add a documentation") - timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build Documentation/ sources") - virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca3d57 ("KVM: s390: diagnose call documentation") - vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2ccaf ("mm: dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct page") - w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4e2ae ("w1: Add 1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100") - w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382c6f5 ("hdq: documentation for OMAP HDQ") - x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86a895 ("x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading") - x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade478862 ("x86/doc: mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp") - x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4b50c ("x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S") - x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d874c7 ("x86: PAT documentation") Moved files - arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by commit 37b8304642c7 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of the source code") - efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in commit 4172fe2f8a47 ("EFI stub documentation updates") - laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit efcfed9bad88 ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86") - commit 5616c23ad9cd ("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 70e66e4df191 ("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi") Removed files (left in 00-INDEX) - memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990aadf ("memory.txt: remove stray information") - gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198cfcaa ("Documentation: gpiolib: document new interface") - networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae26dd ("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers") - serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade0bb9 ("tty: esp: remove broken driver") - s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f669308 ("[S390] remove tape block docu") - vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171d2bc ("mm: documentation: remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc") - laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 020036678e81 ("acer-wmi: Delete out-of-date documentation") Typos/misc issues - rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit 030d794bf498 ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication.") - commit b88cf73d9278 ("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 a5fd9139f74c ("w1: add 1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31") - s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a407e ("[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>
2013-08-20Documentation/fb/viafb.modes fix a typoStefan Huber1-1/+1
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>
2013-07-25doc: Fix typo in doucmentationsMasanari Iida2-2/+2
Correct typo (double words) in documentations. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-07-10Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linuxLinus Torvalds1-11/+5
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 ...
2013-05-31uvesafb: Clean up MTRR codeAndy Lutomirski1-11/+5
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>
2013-05-28doc: fix misspellings with 'codespell' toolAnatol Pomozov1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-03-31Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.confLucas De Marchi2-2/+2
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>
2012-03-07Documentation: Fix multiple typo in DocumentationMasanari Iida1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-12-20fbdev: Add FOURCC-based format configuration APILaurent Pinchart1-0/+306
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>
2011-08-24udlfb: Enable fbcon access to framebuffer by defaultBernie Thompson1-4/+6
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
2011-08-24udlfb: Enable fb_defio by defaultBernie Thompson1-8/+16
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>
2011-08-24udlfb: Add module option to do without shadow framebufferStuart Hopkins1-0/+5
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>
2011-07-25DRM: clean up and document parsing of video= parameterRolf Eike Beer1-3/+18
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>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi1-2/+2
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-22video, sm501: add edid and commandline supportHeiko Schocher1-0/+10
- 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>
2011-01-06Merge branch 'fbdev/udlfb'Paul Mundt1-0/+144
2010-11-18fbdev: Update documentation index file.Vicente Jimenez Aguilar1-7/+25
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>
2010-11-16fbdev: move udlfb out of staging.Paul Mundt1-0/+144
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>
2010-10-28Merge branch 'viafb-next' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds1-0/+48
* '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 ...
2010-09-24viafb: add documentation for proc interfaceFlorian Tobias Schandinat1-0/+48
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>
2010-08-04Documentation: update broken web addresses.Justin P. Mattock1-1/+1
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>
2010-04-07fbdev: rename imacfb.txt to efifb.txt and change imacfb to efifb.Justin P. Mattock1-7/+7
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>
2009-12-16viafb: documentation updateHarald Welte1-11/+1
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>
2009-12-01fbdev: Migrate mailing lists to vgerGeert Uytterhoeven1-4/+2
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>
2009-09-23matroxfb: make CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y mandatoryJean Delvare1-3/+1
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>
2009-09-23ep93xx video driverRyan Mallon1-0/+135
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>
2009-06-17Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt: fix typoPaul Menzel1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de> Cc: Nico Schmoigl <schmoigl@rumms.uni-mannheim.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-12trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixesMatt LaPlante1-1/+1
Fix various typos in documentation txts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-04-07uvesafb: documentation updateMichal Januszewski1-3/+4
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>
2009-04-01fbdev: remove cyblafb driverKrzysztof Helt10-634/+0
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>
2008-12-29[ARM] pxafb: add support for overlay1 and overlay2 as framebuffer devicesEric Miao1-0/+84
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)>
2008-12-29[ARM] pxafb: allow video memory size to be configurableEric Miao1-2/+6
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)>
2008-10-16uvesafb: document mode to mode_option parameter changeMike Pagano1-2/+2
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>
2008-10-16intelfb: support 945GME (as used in ASUS Eee 901)Phil Endecott1-0/+1
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>
2008-10-16viafb: viafb.modes, viafb.txtJoseph Chan2-0/+1084
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>
2008-07-24video: sh7760fb: SH7760/SH7763 LCDC framebuffer driverNobuhiro Iwamatsu1-0/+131
Framebuffer driver for the SH7760/SH7763 integrated LCD controller. Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net> Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu.nobuhiro@renesas.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Siegfried Schaefer <s.schaefer@schaefer-edv.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24tridentfb: documentation updateKrzysztof Helt1-15/+31
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>
2008-04-28fbdev: intelfb: add support for the Intel Integrated Graphics Controller ↵Maik Broemme1-0/+2
965G/965GM 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>
2008-04-28fbdev: platforming metronomefb and am200epdJaya Kumar1-9/+7
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>