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diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/bugs b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/bugs
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+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
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+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
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+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
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+#
+# 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 640 480 640 3756 8
+ timings 47619 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3
+endmode
+
+mode "640x480-60"
+ geometry 640 480 640 3756 8
+ timings 39682 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3
+endmode
+
+mode "640x480-70"
+ geometry 640 480 640 3756 8
+ timings 34013 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3
+endmode
+
+mode "640x480-72"
+ geometry 640 480 640 3756 8
+ timings 33068 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3
+endmode
+
+mode "640x480-75"
+ geometry 640 480 640 3756 8
+ timings 31746 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3
+endmode
+
+mode "640x480-80"
+ geometry 640 480 640 3756 8
+ timings 29761 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3
+endmode
+
+mode "640x480-85"
+ geometry 640 480 640 3756 8
+ timings 28011 4294967256 24 17 0 216 3
+endmode
+
+mode "800x600-50"
+ geometry 800 600 800 3221 8
+ timings 30303 96 24 14 0 136 11
+endmode
+
+mode "800x600-60"
+ geometry 800 600 800 3221 8
+ timings 25252 96 24 14 0 136 11
+endmode
+
+mode "800x600-70"
+ geometry 800 600 800 3221 8
+ timings 21645 96 24 14 0 136 11
+endmode
+
+mode "800x600-72"
+ geometry 800 600 800 3221 8
+ timings 21043 96 24 14 0 136 11
+endmode
+
+mode "800x600-75"
+ geometry 800 600 800 3221 8
+ timings 20202 96 24 14 0 136 11
+endmode
+
+mode "800x600-80"
+ geometry 800 600 800 3221 8
+ timings 18939 96 24 14 0 136 11
+endmode
+
+mode "800x600-85"
+ geometry 800 600 800 3221 8
+ timings 17825 96 24 14 0 136 11
+endmode
+
+mode "1024x768-50"
+ geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8
+ timings 19054 144 24 29 0 120 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1024x768-60"
+ geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8
+ timings 15880 144 24 29 0 120 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1024x768-70"
+ geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8
+ timings 13610 144 24 29 0 120 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1024x768-72"
+ geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8
+ timings 13232 144 24 29 0 120 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1024x768-75"
+ geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8
+ timings 12703 144 24 29 0 120 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1024x768-80"
+ geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8
+ timings 11910 144 24 29 0 120 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1024x768-85"
+ geometry 1024 768 1024 2815 8
+ timings 11209 144 24 29 0 120 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1280x1024-50"
+ geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8
+ timings 11114 232 16 39 0 160 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1280x1024-60"
+ geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8
+ timings 9262 232 16 39 0 160 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1280x1024-70"
+ geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8
+ timings 7939 232 16 39 0 160 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1280x1024-72"
+ geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8
+ timings 7719 232 16 39 0 160 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1280x1024-75"
+ geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8
+ timings 7410 232 16 39 0 160 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1280x1024-80"
+ geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8
+ timings 6946 232 16 39 0 160 3
+endmode
+
+mode "1280x1024-85"
+ geometry 1280 1024 1280 2662 8
+ timings 6538 232 16 39 0 160 3
+endmode
+
diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/performance b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/performance
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+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
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+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.
+
+xpanning Who needs it?
+
+ioctls Who needs it?
+
+TV-out Will be done later
+
+??? Feel free to contact me if you have any
+ feature requests
diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/usage b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/usage
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+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.
+
+ 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 xres to differ from xres_virtual
+ - 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.
+
+ Any request that violates the rules given above will be ignored and
+ fbset will return an error.
+
+ If you program a virtual y resolution higher than the hardware limit,
+ cyblafb will silently decrease that value to the highest possible
+ value.
+
+ Attempts to disable acceleration are ignored.
+
+ 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!
+
+vesafb allows cyblafb to be loaded after vesafb has been
+ loaded. See sections "Module unloading ...".
+
+
+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 vesafb=1
+ 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/whycyblafb b/Documentation/fb/cyblafb/whycyblafb
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+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
+
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