[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>
diff --git a/drivers/video/Makefile b/drivers/video/Makefile
index b018df4..8478d21 100644
--- a/drivers/video/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/video/Makefile
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_IMSTT) += imsttfb.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_S3TRIO) += S3triofb.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_FM2) += fm2fb.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT) += tridentfb.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_FB_CYBLA) += cyblafb.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT) += tridentfb.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_STI) += stifb.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_FFB) += ffb.o sbuslib.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_CG6) += cg6.o sbuslib.o