Commit 5b55f52d authored by Sudip Mukherjee's avatar Sudip Mukherjee Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Documentation/fb: add documentation for sm712fb 



Create the documentation for SM712. Mention all the supported modes and
how to use.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Documentation/fb/sm712fb.txt

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What is sm712fb?

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This is a graphics framebuffer driver for Silicon Motion SM712 based processors.



How to use it?

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Switching modes is done using the video=sm712fb:... boot parameter.



If you want, for example, enable a resolution of 1280x1024x24bpp you should

pass to the kernel this command line: "video=sm712fb:0x31B".



You should not compile-in vesafb.



Currently supported video modes are:



[Graphic modes]



bpp | 640x480  800x600  1024x768  1280x1024

----+--------------------------------------------

  8 | 0x301    0x303    0x305    0x307

 16 | 0x311    0x314    0x317    0x31A

 24 | 0x312    0x315    0x318    0x31B



Missing Features

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(alias TODO list)



	* 2D acceleratrion

	* dual-head support