6c89995002
PR: 191174 Submitted by: Franco Fichtner <franco at lastsummer.de>
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2.4 KiB
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89 lines
2.4 KiB
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.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Jason L. Wright (jason@thought.net)
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
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.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
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.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,
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.\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
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.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
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.\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
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.\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN
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.\" ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
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.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" from: OpenBSD: creator.4,v 1.20 2005/03/05 01:48:59 miod Exp
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 18, 2005
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.Dt CREATOR 4 sparc64
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm creator
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.Nd "accelerated color frame buffer"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "device creator"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Tn Sun Creator ,
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.Tn Sun Creator3D
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and
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.Tn Sun Elite3D
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cards are color frame buffers with graphics acceleration available for
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.Tn UltraSPARC
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workstations with
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.Tn UPA
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slots.
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The
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.Nm
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driver interfaces those frame buffers with the
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.Xr syscons 4
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console driver.
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It also provides separate character devices
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.Pa /dev/fb*
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allowing to
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.Xr mmap 2
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these frame buffers
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(used by X11).
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/fb*"
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.It Pa /dev/fb*
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.Nm
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device nodes
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr machfb 4 ,
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.Xr syscons 4
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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driver first appeared in
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.Ox 3.2 .
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The first
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.Fx
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version to include it was
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.Fx 5.2 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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The
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.Nm
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driver was written by
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.An Jake Burkholder Aq Mt jake@FreeBSD.org
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roughly based on the
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.Ox
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driver written by
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.An "Jason L. Wright" .
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.Sh CAVEATS
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Font loading and mode switching are not implemented.
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