20 Dec, 2011

1 commit


24 Aug, 2011

3 commits

  • Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson
    Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat

    Bernie Thompson
     
  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat

    Bernie Thompson
     
  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson
    Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat

    Stuart Hopkins
     

25 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie

    Rolf Eike Beer
     

31 Mar, 2011

1 commit


22 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • - add commandline options:
    sm501fb.mode:
    Specify resolution as "x[-][@]"
    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
    cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
    cc: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org
    cc: Ben Dooks
    cc: Vincent Sanders
    cc: Samuel Ortiz
    cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    cc: Randy Dunlap
    cc: Paul Mundt
    Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt

    Heiko Schocher
     

06 Jan, 2011

1 commit


18 Nov, 2010

1 commit


16 Nov, 2010

1 commit

  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt

    Paul Mundt
     

28 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • * '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
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

24 Sep, 2010

1 commit


04 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber
    Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
    Cc: Paulo Marques
    Cc: Randy Dunlap
    Cc: Michael Neuling
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

    Justin P. Mattock
     

07 Apr, 2010

1 commit


16 Dec, 2009

1 commit

  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat
    Cc: Joseph Chan
    Cc: Scott Fang
    Cc: Krzysztof Helt
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Harald Welte
     

01 Dec, 2009

1 commit


23 Sep, 2009

2 commits

  • 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
    Acked-by: Petr Vandrovec
    Cc: Krzysztof Helt
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jean Delvare
     
  • EP93xx video driver plus documentation.

    Signed-off-by: Ryan Mallon
    Acked-by: H Hartley Sweeten
    Cc: Daniele Venzano
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Krzysztof Helt
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ryan Mallon
     

17 Jun, 2009

1 commit


13 Jun, 2009

1 commit


07 Apr, 2009

1 commit


01 Apr, 2009

1 commit

  • 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
    Cc: "Jani Monoses"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Krzysztof Helt
     

29 Dec, 2008

2 commits

  • 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
    Cc: Rodolfo Giometti
    Signed-off-by: Eric Miao

    Eric Miao
     
  • The amount of video memory size is decided according to the following
    order:

    1. x x 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
    Signed-off-by: Eric Miao

    Eric Miao
     

17 Oct, 2008

3 commits

  • Document the change from the old "mode" parameter to the "mode_option"
    parameter.

    Signed-off-by: Mike Pagano
    Cc: Krzysztof Halasa
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Mike Pagano
     
  • 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
    Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Phil Endecott
     
  • 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
    Cc: Krzysztof Helt
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Joseph Chan
     

25 Jul, 2008

2 commits


28 Apr, 2008

7 commits

  • 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
    Cc: Dave Airlie
    Cc: Antonino Daplas
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Cc: Krzysztof Halasa
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Maik Broemme
     
  • This patch splits metronomefb into the platform independent metronomefb and
    the platform dependent am200epd.

    Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar
    Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas"
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jaya Kumar
     
  • By default disable VT switch, but allow it to be overridden via the
    'vt_switch' module arg.

    Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon
    Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas"
    Cc: Jordan Crouse
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Andres Salomon
     
  • Match other fb drivers (including gxfb). Also, document the current boot
    arguments in Documentation/fb/lxfb.txt.

    Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon
    Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas"
    Cc: Jordan Crouse
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Andres Salomon
     
  • Add names of drivers converted to "mode_option" parameter.

    This is one step toward changing all fb drivers to have common "mode_option"
    parameter.

    Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt
    Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Krzysztof Helt
     
  • 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
    Cc: Jordan Crouse
    Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas"
    Cc: Pavel Machek
    Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Andres Salomon
     
  • 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
    Cc: Jordan Crouse
    Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Andres Salomon
     

20 Mar, 2008

1 commit

  • 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
    Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jaya Kumar
     

07 Feb, 2008

1 commit

  • Convert fb defio from nopage to fault.
    Switch from OOM to SIGBUS if the resource is not available.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
    Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas"
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Cc: Jaya Kumar
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nick Piggin
     

20 Oct, 2007

1 commit

  • 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
    Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
    Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

    Matt LaPlante
     

17 Oct, 2007

1 commit

  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jesper Juhl