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@@ -1,29 +1,40 @@
.. comment SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
+.. COMMENT: COPYRIGHT (c) 1988-2002.
+.. COMMENT: On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR).
+.. COMMENT: All rights reserved.
+
Frame Buffer Driver
###################
-In this chapter, we present the basic functionality implemented by a
-frame buffer driver: ``frame_buffer_initialize()``, ``frame_buffer_open()``,``frame_buffer_close()``, ``frame_buffer_read()``, ``frame_buffer_write()``
-and ``frame_buffer_control()``.
+In this chapter, we present the basic functionality implemented by a frame
+buffer driver:
+
+- ``frame_buffer_initialize()``
+- ``frame_buffer_open()``
+- ``frame_buffer_close()``
+- ``frame_buffer_read()``
+- ``frame_buffer_write()``
+- ``frame_buffer_control()``
Introduction
============
The purpose of the frame buffer driver is to provide an abstraction for
-graphics hardware.
-By using the frame buffer interface, an application can display graphics
-without knowing anything about the low-level details of interfacing to a
-particular graphics adapter. The parameters governing the mapping of
-memory to displayed pixels (planar or linear, bit depth, etc) is still
-implementation-specific, but device-independent methods are provided to
+graphics hardware. By using the frame buffer interface, an application can
+display graphics without knowing anything about the low-level details of
+interfacing to a particular graphics adapter. The parameters governing the
+mapping of memory to displayed pixels (planar or linear, bit depth, etc) is
+still implementation-specific, but device-independent methods are provided to
determine and potentially modify these parameters.
-The frame buffer driver is commonly located in the ``console``
-directory of the BSP and registered by the name */dev/fb0*.
-Additional frame buffers (if available) are named */dev/fb1*,*/dev/fb2*, etc.
+The frame buffer driver is commonly located in the ``console`` directory of the
+BSP and registered by the name :file:`/dev/fb0`. Additional frame buffers (if
+available) are named :file:`/dev/fb1*,*/dev/fb2`, etc.
-To work with the frame buffer, the following operation sequence is used:``open()``, ``ioctls()`` to get the frame buffer info, ``read()`` and/or``write()``, and ``close()``.
+To work with the frame buffer, the following operation sequence is
+used:``open()``, ``ioctls()`` to get the frame buffer info, ``read()``
+and/or ``write()``, and ``close()``.
Driver Function Overview
========================
@@ -32,69 +43,77 @@ Initialization
--------------
The driver initialization is called once during the RTEMS initialization
-process and returns RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL when the device driver is successfully
-initialized. During the initialization, a name is assigned to the frame
-buffer device. If the graphics hardware supports console text output,
-as is the case with the pc386 VGA hardware, initialization into graphics
-mode may be deferred until the device is ``open()`` ed.
+process and returns ``RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL`` when the device driver is successfully
+initialized. During the initialization, a name is assigned to the frame buffer
+device. If the graphics hardware supports console text output, as is the case
+with the pc386 VGA hardware, initialization into graphics mode may be deferred
+until the device is ``open()`` ed.
The ``frame_buffer_initialize()`` function may look like this:
-.. code:: c
+.. code-block:: c
rtems_device_driver frame_buffer_initialize(
- rtems_device_major_number major,
- rtems_device_minor_number minor,
- void \*arg)
+ rtems_device_major_number major,
+ rtems_device_minor_number minor,
+ void *arg)
{
- rtems_status_code status;
- printk( "frame buffer driver initializing..\\n" );
- /*
- * Register the device
- \*/
- status = rtems_io_register_name("/dev/fb0", major, 0);
- if (status != RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL)
- {
- printk("Error registering frame buffer device!\\n");
- rtems_fatal_error_occurred( status );
- }
- /*
- * graphics hardware initialization goes here for non-console
- * devices
- \*/
- return RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL;
+ rtems_status_code status;
+
+ printk( "frame buffer driver initializing..\n" );
+
+ /*
+ * Register the device
+ */
+ status = rtems_io_register_name("/dev/fb0", major, 0);
+ if (status != RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL)
+ {
+ printk("Error registering frame buffer device!\n");
+ rtems_fatal_error_occurred( status );
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * graphics hardware initialization goes here for non-console
+ * devices
+ */
+
+ return RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL;
}
Opening the Frame Buffer Device
-------------------------------
-The ``frame_buffer_open()`` function is called whenever a frame buffer device is opened.
-If the frame buffer is registered as "/dev/fb0", the ``frame_buffer_open`` entry point
-will be called as the result of an ``open("/dev/fb0", mode)`` in the application.
+The ``frame_buffer_open()`` function is called whenever a frame buffer device
+is opened. If the frame buffer is registered as :file:`/dev/fb0`, the
+``frame_buffer_open`` entry point will be called as the result of an
+``open("/dev/fb0", mode)`` in the application.
+
+Thread safety of the frame buffer driver is implementation-dependent. The VGA
+driver shown below uses a mutex to prevent multiple open() operations of the
+frame buffer device.
-Thread safety of the frame buffer driver is implementation-dependent.
-The VGA driver shown below uses a mutex to prevent multiple open()
-operations of the frame buffer device.
+The ``frame_buffer_open()`` function returns ``RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL`` when the
+device driver is successfully opened, and ``RTEMS_UNSATISFIED`` if the device
+is already open:
-The ``frame_buffer_open()`` function returns RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL when the device driver
-is successfully opened, and RTEMS_UNSATISFIED if the device is already open:
-.. code:: c
+.. code-block:: c
rtems_device_driver frame_buffer_close(
- rtems_device_major_number major,
- rtems_device_minor_number minor,
- void \*arg
+ rtems_device_major_number major,
+ rtems_device_minor_number minor,
+ void *arg
)
{
- if (pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex) == 0){
- /* restore previous state. for VGA this means return to text mode.
- * leave out if graphics hardware has been initialized in
- * frame_buffer_initialize() \*/
- ega_hwterm();
- printk( "FBVGA close called.\\n" );
- return RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL;
- }
- return RTEMS_UNSATISFIED;
+ if (pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex) == 0) {
+ /* restore previous state. for VGA this means return to text mode.
+ * leave out if graphics hardware has been initialized in
+ * frame_buffer_initialize()
+ */
+ ega_hwterm();
+ printk( "FBVGA close called.\n" );
+ return RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL;
+ }
+ return RTEMS_UNSATISFIED;
}
In the previous example, the function ``ega_hwinit()`` takes care of
@@ -103,82 +122,92 @@ hardware-specific initialization.
Closing the Frame Buffer Device
-------------------------------
-The ``frame_buffer_close()`` is invoked when the frame buffer device
-is closed. It frees up any resources allocated in``frame_buffer_open()``, and should restore previous hardware state.
-The entry point corresponds to the device driver close entry point.
+The ``frame_buffer_close()`` is invoked when the frame buffer device is closed.
+It frees up any resources allocated in ``frame_buffer_open()``, and should
+restore previous hardware state. The entry point corresponds to the device
+driver close entry point.
+
+Returns ``RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL`` when the device driver is successfully closed:
-Returns RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL when the device driver is successfully closed:
-.. code:: c
+.. code-block:: c
rtems_device_driver frame_buffer_close(
- rtems_device_major_number major,
- rtems_device_minor_number minor,
- void \*arg)
+ rtems_device_major_number major,
+ rtems_device_minor_number minor,
+ void *arg)
{
- pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
- /* TODO check mutex return value, RTEMS_UNSATISFIED if it failed. we
- * don't want to unconditionally call ega_hwterm()... \*/
- /* restore previous state. for VGA this means return to text mode.
- * leave out if graphics hardware has been initialized in
- * frame_buffer_initialize() \*/
- ega_hwterm();
- printk( "frame buffer close called.\\n" );
- return RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL;
+ pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
+
+ /* TODO check mutex return value, RTEMS_UNSATISFIED if it failed. we
+ * don't want to unconditionally call ega_hwterm()... */
+ /* restore previous state. for VGA this means return to text mode.
+ * leave out if graphics hardware has been initialized in
+ * frame_buffer_initialize() */
+ ega_hwterm();
+ printk( "frame buffer close called.\n" );
+ return RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL;
}
Reading from the Frame Buffer Device
------------------------------------
-The ``frame_buffer_read()`` is invoked from a ``read()`` operation
-on the frame buffer device.
-Read functions should allow normal and partial reading at the end of frame buffer memory.
-This method returns RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL when the device is successfully read from:
-.. code:: c
+The ``frame_buffer_read()`` is invoked from a ``read()`` operation on the frame
+buffer device. Read functions should allow normal and partial reading at the
+end of frame buffer memory. This method returns ``RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL`` when the
+device is successfully read from:
+
+.. code-block:: c
rtems_device_driver frame_buffer_read(
- rtems_device_major_number major,
- rtems_device_minor_number minor,
- void \*arg
+ rtems_device_major_number major,
+ rtems_device_minor_number minor,
+ void *arg
)
{
- rtems_libio_rw_args_t \*rw_args = (rtems_libio_rw_args_t \*)arg;
- rw_args->bytes_moved = ((rw_args->offset + rw_args->count) > fb_fix.smem_len ) ? (fb_fix.smem_len - rw_args->offset) : rw_args->count;
- memcpy(rw_args->buffer, (const void \*) (fb_fix.smem_start + rw_args->offset), rw_args->bytes_moved);
- return RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL;
+ rtems_libio_rw_args_t *rw_args = (rtems_libio_rw_args_t *)arg;
+ rw_args->bytes_moved = ((rw_args->offset + rw_args->count) > fb_fix.smem_len ) ?
+ (fb_fix.smem_len - rw_args->offset) : rw_args->count;
+ memcpy(rw_args->buffer,
+ (const void *) (fb_fix.smem_start + rw_args->offset),
+ rw_args->bytes_moved);
+ return RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL;
}
Writing to the Frame Buffer Device
----------------------------------
-The ``frame_buffer_write()`` is invoked from a ``write()``
-operation on the frame buffer device.
-The frame buffer write function is similar to the read function, and
-should handle similar cases involving partial writes.
+The ``frame_buffer_write()`` is invoked from a ``write()`` operation on the
+frame buffer device. The frame buffer write function is similar to the read
+function, and should handle similar cases involving partial writes.
-This method returns RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL when the device is successfully
+This method returns ``RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL`` when the device is successfully
written to:
-.. code:: c
+
+.. code-block:: c
rtems_device_driver frame_buffer_write(
- rtems_device_major_number major,
- rtems_device_minor_number minor,
- void \*arg
+ rtems_device_major_number major,
+ rtems_device_minor_number minor,
+ void *arg
)
{
- rtems_libio_rw_args_t \*rw_args = (rtems_libio_rw_args_t \*)arg;
- rw_args->bytes_moved = ((rw_args->offset + rw_args->count) > fb_fix.smem_len ) ? (fb_fix.smem_len - rw_args->offset) : rw_args->count;
- memcpy( (void \*) (fb_fix.smem_start + rw_args->offset), rw_args->buffer, rw_args->bytes_moved);
- return RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL;
+ rtems_libio_rw_args_t *rw_args = (rtems_libio_rw_args_t *)arg;
+ rw_args->bytes_moved = ((rw_args->offset + rw_args->count) > fb_fix.smem_len ) ?
+ (fb_fix.smem_len - rw_args->offset) : rw_args->count;
+ memcpy((void *) (fb_fix.smem_start + rw_args->offset),
+ rw_args->buffer,
+ rw_args->bytes_moved);
+ return RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL;
}
Frame Buffer IO Control
-----------------------
-The frame buffer driver allows several ioctls, partially compatible with
-the Linux kernel,
-to obtain information about the hardware.
+The frame buffer driver allows several ioctls, partially compatible with the
+Linux kernel, to obtain information about the hardware.
-All ``ioctl()`` operations on the frame buffer device invoke``frame_buffer_control()``.
+All ``ioctl()`` operations on the frame buffer device invoke
+``frame_buffer_control()``.
Ioctls supported:
@@ -186,46 +215,42 @@ Ioctls supported:
- ioctl to set and get palette.
-.. code:: c
+.. code-block:: c
rtems_device_driver frame_buffer_control(
- rtems_device_major_number major,
- rtems_device_minor_number minor,
- void \*arg
+ rtems_device_major_number major,
+ rtems_device_minor_number minor,
+ void *arg
)
{
- rtems_libio_ioctl_args_t \*args = arg;
- printk( "FBVGA ioctl called, cmd=%x\\n", args->command );
- switch( args->command ) {
- case FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO:
- args->ioctl_return = get_fix_screen_info( ( struct fb_fix_screeninfo * ) args->buffer );
- break;
- case FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO:
- args->ioctl_return = get_var_screen_info( ( struct fb_var_screeninfo * ) args->buffer );
- break;
- case FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO:
- /* not implemented yet*/
- args->ioctl_return = -1;
- return RTEMS_UNSATISFIED;
- case FBIOGETCMAP:
- args->ioctl_return = get_palette( ( struct fb_cmap * ) args->buffer );
- break;
- case FBIOPUTCMAP:
- args->ioctl_return = set_palette( ( struct fb_cmap * ) args->buffer );
- break;
- default:
- args->ioctl_return = 0;
- break;
- }
- return RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL;
+ rtems_libio_ioctl_args_t *args = arg;
+
+ printk( "FBVGA ioctl called, cmd=%x\n", args->command );
+
+ switch( args->command ) {
+ case FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO:
+ args->ioctl_return = get_fix_screen_info( ( struct fb_fix_screeninfo * ) args->buffer );
+ break;
+ case FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO:
+ args->ioctl_return = get_var_screen_info( ( struct fb_var_screeninfo * ) args->buffer );
+ break;
+ case FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO:
+ /* not implemented yet*/
+ args->ioctl_return = -1;
+ return RTEMS_UNSATISFIED;
+ case FBIOGETCMAP:
+ args->ioctl_return = get_palette( ( struct fb_cmap * ) args->buffer );
+ break;
+ case FBIOPUTCMAP:
+ args->ioctl_return = set_palette( ( struct fb_cmap * ) args->buffer );
+ break;
+ default:
+ args->ioctl_return = 0;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ return RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL;
}
-See ``rtems/fb.h`` for more information on the list of ioctls and
-data structures they work with.
-
-.. COMMENT: COPYRIGHT (c) 1988-2002.
-
-.. COMMENT: On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR).
-
-.. COMMENT: All rights reserved.
-
+See ``rtems/fb.h`` for more information on the list of ioctls and data
+structures they work with.