Project update, new website

Project update, new website

[Otto Wyss]

Hi,

since my own project wyoDesktop "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/"
depends on many and good framebuffer drivers and linux-fbdev looked a
little outdated I volunteered to take care of it. So far I've remove
hopefully all spam messages from the mailing lists and will try to keep
them clean. I also installed a new web site
"http://linux-fbdev.sourceforge.net/", the old one is still available
under "http://linux-fbdev.sourceforge.net/old/". 

Some questions about the new site:
- The new driver list is just a draft of the old list. If you are the
maintainer of framebuffer driver and you or your driver isn't listed,
post the information here or to me.
- I haven't installed CVS access for any driver so far, if you would
like it for your driver just say so. To see how it goes, have a look at
the wxCode project "http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/".
- Any documentation is missing, please inform me what and where.
- Any driver status information is missing, ditto.

I hope this update motivates anyone, developers and users, to renew any
effort to increase quality and quantity of the framebuffer drivers. If
anyone has some spare time and wants to help out just post a message
here or direct to me. 

O. Wyss

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See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/"


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Framebuffer functionality chart (was Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] Project update, new website)

[Otto Wyss]

"Antonino A. Daplas" wrote:
> 
> On Friday 20 August 2004 23:31, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > I intend to change the status page into a functionality chart. First I
> > have to know which functionality exists and are important enough to be
> > listed. Any imput is welcomed.
> >
> Suggestion:
> 
> A.  Common to all:
> 
> Hardware:
> 1. color depths and color visuals supported
> 2. can the driver pan on the y-axis?
> 3. can the driver pan on the x-axis?
> 4. can the hardware state be changed (ie with fbset)?
> 5. access to framebuffer (fb_read/fb_write/mmap)
> 6. access to MMIO space
> 
> Console:
> 1. can it accelerate imageblit (font drawing)
> 2. can it accelerate copyarea (block transfers)
> 3. can it accelerate fillrect (block sets)
> 
> Video Mode setting:
> 1. How is the video mode set (more than 1 can be chosen)?
>         a. at driver load
>         b. user-specified modelines (ie. fbset)
>         c. global mode database
>         d. EDID/private mode database
>         e. EDID/GTF calculation
>         f. driver-specific method
> 
> B. Miscellaneous:
>         a. support for interrupts on vsync/vblank
>         b. ioctl for vsync/vblank
> 
Comments from other developers? Can these points be divided into two
groups ("essential" for minimal functionality and "advanced" for speed
improvements, nice to have features?

O. Wyss

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Re: Framebuffer functionality chart (was Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] Projectupdate, new website)

[Otto Wyss]

Otto Wyss wrote:
> 
> "Antonino A. Daplas" wrote:
> >
> > On Friday 20 August 2004 23:31, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > > I intend to change the status page into a functionality chart. First I
> > > have to know which functionality exists and are important enough to be
> > > listed. Any imput is welcomed.
> > >
> > Suggestion:
> >
> > A.  Common to all:
> >
> > Hardware:
> > 1. color depths and color visuals supported
> > 2. can the driver pan on the y-axis?
> > 3. can the driver pan on the x-axis?
> > 4. can the hardware state be changed (ie with fbset)?
> > 5. access to framebuffer (fb_read/fb_write/mmap)
> > 6. access to MMIO space
> >
> > Console:
> > 1. can it accelerate imageblit (font drawing)
> > 2. can it accelerate copyarea (block transfers)
> > 3. can it accelerate fillrect (block sets)
> >
> > Video Mode setting:
> > 1. How is the video mode set (more than 1 can be chosen)?
> >         a. at driver load
> >         b. user-specified modelines (ie. fbset)
> >         c. global mode database
> >         d. EDID/private mode database
> >         e. EDID/GTF calculation
> >         f. driver-specific method
> >
> > B. Miscellaneous:
> >         a. support for interrupts on vsync/vblank
> >         b. ioctl for vsync/vblank
> >
Well then is it possible to check all these features with a test
program? Does anyone know how?

O. Wyss

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