[PATCH] Update cyblafb driver
This is a major update to the cyblafb framebuffer driver. Most
of the stuff has been tested in the mm tree.
Main advantages:
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- vxres > xres support
- ywrap and xpan support
- much faster for almost all modes (e.g. 1280x1024-16bpp
draws more than 41 full screens of text instead of about 25
full screens of text per second on authors Epia 5000)
- module init/exit code fixed
- bugs triggered by console rotation fixed
- lots of minor improvements
- startup modes suitable for high performance scrolling
in all directions
This diff also contains a lot of white space fixes.
No side effects are possible, only one single graphics core is affected.
Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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+ - the vesafb parameter has been removed as I decided to allow the
+ feature without any special parameter.
+
+ - Cyblafb does not use the vga style of panning any longer, now the
+ "right view" register in the graphics engine IO space is used. Without
+ that change it was impossible to use all available memory, and without
+ access to all available memory it is impossible to ywrap.
+
+ - The imageblit function now uses hardware acceleration for all font
+ widths. Hardware blitting across pixel column 2048 is broken in the
+ cyberblade/i1 graphics core, but we work around that hardware bug.
+
+ - modes with vxres != xres are supported now.
+
+ - ywrap scrolling is supported now and the default. This is a big
+ performance gain.
+
+ - default video modes use vyres > yres and vxres > xres to allow
+ almost optimal scrolling speed for normal and rotated screens
+
+ - some features mainly usefull for debugging the upper layers of the
+ framebuffer system have been added, have a look at the code
+
+ - fixed: Oops after unloading cyblafb when reading /proc/io*
+
+ - we work around some bugs of the higher framebuffer layers.