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| author | Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at> | 2006-08-13 23:24:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2006-08-14 12:54:28 -0700 |
| commit | b64ef8afa58f397e1eaba2bd9ecaa6812064d464 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e8a312cbf4ff9df84ecee3ea2eca5c0c349d9a2 /Documentation/fb | |
| parent | e9fa4f7bd291c29a785666e2fa5a9cf3241ee6c3 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b64ef8afa58f397e1eaba2bd9ecaa6812064d464.tar.gz lwn-b64ef8afa58f397e1eaba2bd9ecaa6812064d464.zip | |
[PATCH] add imacfb documentation and detection
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/fb')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt | 31 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt b/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..759028545a7e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt @@ -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> |