Card's view of framebuffer offset into userspace?

Card's view of framebuffer offset into userspace?

[Ville Syrjälä]

Is there a way to ge the framebuffer offset to userspace? I hacked
DirectFB to draw to the crtc2 display but currently I've had to hardcode
the framebuffer offset. So I need something I can feed to tmy G400.

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Ville Syrjälä
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Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] Card's view of framebuffer offset into userspace?

[Petr Vandrovec]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 04:10:29PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> Is there a way to ge the framebuffer offset to userspace? I hacked
> DirectFB to draw to the crtc2 display but currently I've had to hardcode
> the framebuffer offset. So I need something I can feed to tmy G400.

In what environment? With matroxfb you have special framebuffer which
is displayed by CRTC2 engine. Offset is not explicitly exported, but
if you'll take low 24 bits from fb_start, you'll get offset on
G400/G450/G550 devices.

Accessing CRTC2's memory through primary head's framebuffer is not
supported.
						Best regards,
							Petr Vandrovec
							vandrove@vc.cvut.cz



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Re: Card's view of framebuffer offset into userspace?

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:02:14AM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 04:10:29PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > Is there a way to ge the framebuffer offset to userspace? I hacked
> > DirectFB to draw to the crtc2 display but currently I've had to hardcode
> > the framebuffer offset. So I need something I can feed to tmy G400.
> 
> In what environment? With matroxfb you have special framebuffer which
> is displayed by CRTC2 engine.

Yes. That's what DirectFB uses for mode switching and buffer flipping.  
But I need something for the DSTORG,SRCORG and TEXORG registers. DirectFB
uses it's own memory manager and the offsets there start from the
beginning of the framebuffer. It assumes the hardware sees the framebuffer
at offset 0 but with the CRTC2 that's not true.

> Offset is not explicitly exported, but
> if you'll take low 24 bits from fb_start, you'll get offset on
> G400/G450/G550 devices.

I don't see such a thing anywhere. Do you mean smem_start? Ok just tried
with (smem_start + offset & 0x1ffffff) and it works for both heads. So
that's actually 25 bits. Maybe I should just use 28 bits to accomodate
larger framebuffers?

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http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/


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