From 5d1646d90e1f2cceb9f0828f4b28318cd0ec7744 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 12:05:51 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 5.10.209. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- Documentation/fb/metronomefb.rst | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/fb/metronomefb.rst (limited to 'Documentation/fb/metronomefb.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/fb/metronomefb.rst b/Documentation/fb/metronomefb.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..63e1d31a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fb/metronomefb.rst @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +=========== +Metronomefb +=========== + +Maintained by Jaya Kumar + +Last revised: Mar 10, 2008 + +Metronomefb is a driver for the Metronome display controller. The controller +is from E-Ink Corporation. It is intended to be used to drive the E-Ink +Vizplex display media. E-Ink hosts some details of this controller and the +display media here http://www.e-ink.com/products/matrix/metronome.html . + +Metronome is interfaced to the host CPU through the AMLCD interface. The +host CPU generates the control information and the image in a framebuffer +which is then delivered to the AMLCD interface by a host specific method. +The display and error status are each pulled through individual GPIOs. + +Metronomefb is platform independent and depends on a board specific driver +to do all physical IO work. Currently, an example is implemented for the +PXA board used in the AM-200 EPD devkit. This example is am200epd.c + +Metronomefb requires waveform information which is delivered via the AMLCD +interface to the metronome controller. The waveform information is expected to +be delivered from userspace via the firmware class interface. The waveform file +can be compressed as long as your udev or hotplug script is aware of the need +to uncompress it before delivering it. metronomefb will ask for metronome.wbf +which would typically go into /lib/firmware/metronome.wbf depending on your +udev/hotplug setup. I have only tested with a single waveform file which was +originally labeled 23P01201_60_WT0107_MTC. I do not know what it stands for. +Caution should be exercised when manipulating the waveform as there may be +a possibility that it could have some permanent effects on the display media. +I neither have access to nor know exactly what the waveform does in terms of +the physical media. + +Metronomefb uses the deferred IO interface so that it can provide a memory +mappable frame buffer. It has been tested with tinyx (Xfbdev). It is known +to work at this time with xeyes, xclock, xloadimage, xpdf. -- cgit v1.2.3