[PATCH v2] FB driver for Cirrus GD5446 graphic hardware.

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
Fri Sep 28 21:40:14 UTC 2012


Thanks.

I did the Makefile.am and configure.ac magic.
When you configure add USE_CIRRUS_GD5446=1
to the configure command line.

This should all be committed now. Please let me
know that this works for you and then we can
move on to the graphics toolkit.

--joel

On 09/27/2012 05:26 PM, Pavel Pisa wrote:
> From: Alexandru-Sever Horin<alex.sever.h at gmail.com>
> Subject: FB driver for Cirrus GD5446 graphic hardware.
>
> Implementation is tested to work on QEMU simulator only.
>
> QEMU offers this hardware by default for PC platform but
> it can be requested by "-vga cirrus" option for other PCI
> aware systems in development/next QEMU releases as well.
>
> Next sources have been used for driver implementation:
>    - RTEMS fb_vga.c - Rosimildo da Silva ( rdasilva at connecttel.com )
>    - Cirrus xf86 driver - used as VGA hardware setup documentation
>    - CL-GD5446 Technical Reference Manual, 1996, Second Edition
>
> fb_vga.c has to be replaced by fb_cirrus.c in
>    rtems/c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/Makefile.am
> to test the driver now. We expect to discus and include driver
> section mechanism after driver testing.
>
> Patch version 2:
>    - comments style updated according to Joel Sherrill review
>    - use static for variables and functions to compile without warnings
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru-Sever Horin<alex.sever.h at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa<pisa at cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
>

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