[PATCH] add imacfb documentation and detection
authorEdgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:24:16 +0000 (23:24 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:54:28 +0000 (12:54 -0700)
Add basic Machine detection to imacfb and some Ducumentation bits for
imacfb.

Signed-off-by: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/video/Kconfig
drivers/video/imacfb.c

diff --git a/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt b/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..7590285
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+
+What is imacfb?
+===============
+
+This is a generic EFI platform driver for Intel based Apple computers.
+Imacfb is only for EFI booted Intel Macs.
+
+Supported Hardware
+==================
+
+iMac 17"/20"
+Macbook
+Macbook Pro 15"/17"
+MacMini
+
+How to use it?
+==============
+
+Imacfb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine.
+You have to add the fillowing kernel parameters in your elilo.conf:
+       Macbook :
+               video=imacfb:macbook
+       MacMini :
+               video=imacfb:mini
+       Macbook Pro 15", iMac 17" :
+               video=imacfb:i17
+       Macbook Pro 17", iMac 20" :
+               video=imacfb:i20
+
+--
+Edgar Hucek <gimli@dark-green.com>
index c40b9b8..702eb93 100644 (file)
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ config FB_VESA
 
 config FB_IMAC
        bool "Intel-based Macintosh Framebuffer Support"
-       depends on (FB = y) && X86
+       depends on (FB = y) && X86 && EFI
        select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
        select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
        select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
Simple merge