linux/Documentation/fb
Knut Petersen 9fa68eae9f [PATCH] framebuffer: new driver for cyberblade/i1 graphics core
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>
2005-09-09 13:58:02 -07:00
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cyblafb [PATCH] framebuffer: new driver for cyberblade/i1 graphics core 2005-09-09 13:58:02 -07:00
00-INDEX Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
aty128fb.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
cirrusfb.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
framebuffer.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
intel810.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
intelfb.txt [PATCH] intelfb documentation 2005-06-21 19:07:40 -07:00
internals.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
matroxfb.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
modedb.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
pvr2fb.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
pxafb.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
sa1100fb.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
sisfb.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
sstfb.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
tgafb.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
tridentfb.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
vesafb.txt [PATCH] vesafb: Document mtrr boot option usage 2005-07-30 10:14:47 -07:00