From 7ce5ba3c7ef26284f60babbe4465259d1f9968f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Januszewski Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:01:06 -0700 Subject: 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 --- Documentation/fb/uvesafb.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/fb/uvesafb.txt b/Documentation/fb/uvesafb.txt index 7ac3c4078ff9..eefdd91d298a 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. -- cgit v1.2.3