linux-toradex.git/Documentation/fb, branch tegra-11.2.9

Documentation: update broken web addresses.

2010-08-04T13:21:40+00:00

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the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.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

fbdev: rename imacfb.txt to efifb.txt and change imacfb to efifb.

2010-04-07T15:38:02+00:00

Rename imacfb.txt to efifb.txt since imacfb was moved to efifb,and change
imacfb to efifb.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

viafb: documentation update

2009-12-16T15:20:05+00:00

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

fbdev: Migrate mailing lists to vger

2009-11-30T21:46:04+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Jean Delvare 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

matroxfb: make CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y mandatory

2009-09-23T14:39:56+00:00

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

ep93xx video driver

2009-09-23T14:39:51+00:00

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

Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt: fix typo

2009-06-17T02:47:58+00:00

Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel 
Cc: Gerd Knorr 
Cc: Nico Schmoigl 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes

2009-06-12T16:01:47+00:00

Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

uvesafb: documentation update

2009-04-07T15:31:09+00:00

Update the uvesafb documentation to accurately reflect the default options
used by the driver.

Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski 
Cc: Krzysztof Helt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fbdev: remove cyblafb driver

2009-04-01T15:59:33+00:00

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