I'm cleaning up my fbdev driver, and I just noticed FBINFO_VIRTFB:
#define FBINFO_VIRTFB 0x0004 /* FB is System RAM, not device. */
I am currently not setting this flag, but I am allocating my framebuffer in system ram via dma_alloc_coherent(). I don't see any good documentation for this flag, but I suspect I should be enabling it. What exactly does this flag do?
I'd also like some explanation for these two macros, which appear to be related:
#define FBINFO_PARTIAL_PAN_OK 0x0040 /* otw use pan only for double-buffering */
#define FBINFO_READS_FAST 0x0080 /* soft-copy faster than rendering */
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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale