From: Michal Januszewski Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 02:01:06 +0000 (-0700) Subject: uvesafb: documentation update X-Git-Url: http://www.pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7ce5ba3c7ef26284f60babbe4465259d1f9968f3;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git uvesafb: documentation update Update the uvesafb documentation to accurately reflect the default options used by the driver. Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski Cc: Krzysztof Helt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/fb/uvesafb.txt b/Documentation/fb/uvesafb.txt index 7ac3c4078ff..eefdd91d298 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/uvesafb.txt +++ b/Documentation/fb/uvesafb.txt @@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ Accepted options: ypan Enable display panning using the VESA protected mode interface. The visible screen is just a window of the video memory, console scrolling is done by changing the - start of the window. Available on x86 only. + start of the window. This option is available on x86 + only and is the default option on that architecture. ywrap Same as ypan, but assumes your gfx board can wrap-around the video memory (i.e. starts reading from top if it @@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ ywrap Same as ypan, but assumes your gfx board can wrap-around Available on x86 only. redraw Scroll by redrawing the affected part of the screen, this - is the safe (and slow) default. + is the default on non-x86. (If you're using uvesafb as a module, the above three options are used a parameter of the scroll option, e.g. scroll=ypan.) @@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ from the Video BIOS if you set pixclock to 0 in fb_var_screeninfo. -- Michal Januszewski - Last updated: 2007-06-16 + Last updated: 2009-03-30 Documentation of the uvesafb options is loosely based on vesafb.txt.