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DV(4)		      BSD/hp300 Kernel Interfaces Manual		 DV(4)

NAME
     dv — HP98730 ``DaVinci'' device interface

DESCRIPTION
     This driver is for the HP98730 and 98731 graphics device, also known as
     the DaVinci.  This driver has not been tested with all possible combina‐
     tions of frame buffer boards and scan boards installed in the device.
     The driver merely checks for the existence of the device and does minimal
     set up.

     The DaVinci can be configured at either the ``internal'' address (frame
     buffer address 0x200000, control register space address 0x560000) or at
     an external select code less than 32.  At the internal address it will be
     the ``preferred'' console device (see cons(4)).  The hardware installa‐
     tion manual describes the procedure for setting these values.

     A user process communicates to the device initially by means of ioctl(2)
     calls.  For the HP-UX ioctl calls supported, refer to HP-UX manuals.  The
     BSD calls supported are:

     GRFIOCGINFO
	     Get Graphics Info

	     Get info about device, setting the entries in the grfinfo struc‐
	     ture, as defined in ⟨hpdev/grfioctl.h⟩.  For the standard 98730,
	     the number of planes should be 4.	The number of colors would
	     therefore be 15, excluding black.	If one 98732A frame buffer
	     board is installed, there will still be 4 planes, with the 4
	     planes on the colormap board becoming overlay planes.  With each
	     additional 98732 frame buffer board 4 planes will be added up to
	     a maximum of 32 planes total.

     GRFIOCON
	     Graphics On

	     Turn graphics on by enabling CRT output.  The screen will come
	     on, displaying whatever is in the frame buffer, using whatever
	     colormap is in place.

     GRFIOCOFF
	     Graphics Off

	     Turn graphics off by disabling output to the CRT.	The frame buf‐
	     fer contents are not affected.

     GRFIOCMAP
	     Map Device to user space

	     Map in control registers and frame buffer space. Once the device
	     file is mapped, the frame buffer structure is accessible.	The
	     structure describing the 98730 is defined in ⟨hpdev/grf_dvreg.h⟩.

EXAMPLE
     This is a short segment of code showing how the device is opened and
     mapped into user process address space assuming that it is ‘grf0’:

	   struct dvboxfb *dvbox;
	   u_char *Addr, frame_buffer;
	   struct grfinfo gi;
	   int disp_fd;

	   disp_fd = open("/dev/grf0",1);

	   if (ioctl (disp_fd, GRFIOCGINFO, &gi) < 0) return -1;

	   (void) ioctl (disp_fd, GRFIOCON, 0);

	   Addr = (u_char *) 0;
	   if (ioctl (disp_fd, GRFIOCMAP, &Addr) < 0) {
	   (void) ioctl (disp_fd, GRFIOCOFF, 0);
	   return -1;
	   }
	   dvbox = (dvboxfb *) Addr;		      /* Control Registers   */
	   frame_buffer=(u_char *)Addr+gi.gd_regsize; /* Frame buffer memory */

FILES
     /dev/grf?		BSD special file
     /dev/crt98730
     /dev/ocrt98730	HP-UX starbase special files
     /dev/MAKEDEV.hpux	script for creating HP-UX special files

DIAGNOSTICS
     None under BSD.  HP-UX CE.utilities must be used.

ERRORS
     [ENODEV]  no such device.

     [EBUSY]   Another process has the device open.

     [EINVAL]  Invalid ioctl specification.

SEE ALSO
     ioctl(2), grf(4).

BUGS
     Not tested for all configurations of scan board and frame buffer memory
     boards.

BSD				 June 9, 1993				   BSD
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