Commit 7ce5ba3c authored by Michal Januszewski's avatar Michal Januszewski Committed by Linus Torvalds

uvesafb: documentation update

Update the uvesafb documentation to accurately reflect the default options
used by the driver.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d88ca815
......@@ -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.
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Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Last updated: 2007-06-16
Last updated: 2009-03-30
Documentation of the uvesafb options is loosely based on vesafb.txt.
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