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[PATCH] fbdev driver for S3 Trio/Virge
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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 <[email protected]>
Cc: James Simmons <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Ondrej Zajicek authored and Linus Torvalds committed Feb 12, 2007
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78 changes: 78 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/fb/s3fb.txt
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s3fb - fbdev driver for S3 Trio/Virge chips
===========================================


Supported Hardware
==================

S3 Trio32
S3 Trio64 (and variants V+, UV+, V2/DX, V2/GX)
S3 Virge (and variants VX, DX, GX and GX2+)
S3 Plato/PX (completely untested)
S3 Aurora64V+ (completely untested)

- only PCI bus supported
- only BIOS initialized VGA devices supported
- probably not working on big endian

I tested s3fb on Trio64 (plain, V+ and V2/DX) and Virge (plain, VX, DX),
all on i386.


Supported Features
==================

* 4 bpp pseudocolor modes (with 18bit palette, two variants)
* 8 bpp pseudocolor mode (with 18bit palette)
* 16 bpp truecolor modes (RGB 555 and RGB 565)
* 24 bpp truecolor mode (RGB 888) on (only on Virge VX)
* 32 bpp truecolor mode (RGB 888) on (not on Virge VX)
* text mode (activated by bpp = 0)
* interlaced mode variant (not available in text mode)
* doublescan mode variant (not available in text mode)
* panning in both directions
* suspend/resume support
* DPMS support

Text mode is supported even in higher resolutions, but there is limitation
to lower pixclocks (maximum between 50-60 MHz, depending on specific hardware).
This limitation is not enforced by driver. Text mode supports 8bit wide fonts
only (hardware limitation) and 16bit tall fonts (driver limitation).

There are two 4 bpp modes. First mode (selected if nonstd == 0) is mode with
packed pixels, high nibble first. Second mode (selected if nonstd == 1) is mode
with interleaved planes (1 byte interleave), MSB first. Both modes support
8bit wide fonts only (driver limitation).

Suspend/resume works on systems that initialize video card during resume and
if device is active (for example used by fbcon).


Missing Features
================
(alias TODO list)

* secondary (not initialized by BIOS) device support
* big endian support
* Zorro bus support
* MMIO support
* 24 bpp mode support on more cards
* support for fontwidths != 8 in 4 bpp modes
* support for fontheight != 16 in text mode
* composite and external sync (is anyone able to test this?)
* hardware cursor
* video overlay support
* vsync synchronization
* feature connector support
* acceleration support (8514-like 2D, Virge 3D, busmaster transfers)
* better values for some magic registers (performance issues)


Known bugs
==========

* cursor disable in text mode doesn't work

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Ondrej Zajicek <[email protected]>
19 changes: 19 additions & 0 deletions drivers/video/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -85,6 +85,14 @@ config FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
blitting. This is used by drivers that don't provide their own
(accelerated) version.

config FB_SVGALIB
tristate
depends on FB
default n
---help---
Common utility functions useful to fbdev drivers of VGA-based
cards.

config FB_MACMODES
tristate
depends on FB
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help
If you have a S3 Trio say Y. Say N for S3 Virge.

config FB_S3
tristate "S3 Trio/Virge support"
depends on FB && PCI
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
select FB_TILEBLITTING
select FB_SVGALIB
---help---
Driver for graphics boards with S3 Trio / S3 Virge chip.

config FB_SAVAGE
tristate "S3 Savage support"
depends on FB && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
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Expand Up @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SYSFS) += backlight/
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT) += cfbfillrect.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA) += cfbcopyarea.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT) += cfbimgblt.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_SVGALIB) += svgalib.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_MACMODES) += macmodes.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_DDC) += fb_ddc.o

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obj-$(CONFIG_FB_FM2) += fm2fb.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_CYBLA) += cyblafb.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT) += tridentfb.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_S3) += s3fb.o vgastate.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_STI) += stifb.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_FFB) += ffb.o sbuslib.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_CG6) += cg6.o sbuslib.o
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