[Go to CFHT Home Page] Man Pages
Back to Software Index  BORDER=0Manpage Top Level
    cgeight(7D) manual page Table of Contents

Name

cgeight - 24-bit color memory frame buffer

Synopsis

/dev/fbs/cgeightn

Description

The cgeight is a 24-bit color memory frame buffer with a monochrome overlay plane and an overlay enable plane implemented optionally on the Sun-4/110, Sun-4/150, Sun-4/260 and Sun-4/280 system models. It provides the standard frame buffer interface as defined in fbio(7I) .

In addition to the ioctls described under fbio(7I) , the cgeight interface responds to two cgeight-specific colormap ioctls, FBIOPUTCMAP and FBIOGETCMAP . FBIOPUTCMAP returns no information other than success/failure using the ioctl return value. FBIOGETCMAP returns its information in the arrays pointed to by the red, green, and blue members of its fbcmap structure argument; fbcmap is defined in <sys/fbio.h> as:


struct fbcmap {
    int        index;        /* first element (0 origin) */
    int        count;        /* number of elements */
    unsigned char    *red;        /* red color map elements */
    unsigned char    *green;        /* green color map elements */
    unsigned char    *blue;        /* blue color map elements */
};

The driver uses color board vertical-retrace interrupts to load the colormap.

The systems have an overlay plane colormap, which is accessed by encoding the plane group into the index value with the PIX_GROUP macro (see <sys/pr_planegroups.h>).

When using the mmap(2) system call to map in the cgeight frame buffer. The device looks like:


DACBASE: 0x200000     -> Brooktree Ramdac        16 bytes
     0x202000     -> P4 Register             4 bytes
OVLBASE: 0x210000    -> Overlay Plane        1152x900x1
     0x230000    -> Overlay Enable Planea    1152x900x1
     0x250000    -> 24-bit Frame Buffera        1152x900x32

Files

/dev/fbs/cgeight0
<sys/fbio.h>
<sys/pr_planegroups.h>

See Also

mmap(2) , fbio(7I)


Table of Contents