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2Framebuffer driver for Cirrus Logic chipsets
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5Copyright 1999 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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8.. just a little something to get people going; contributors welcome!
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11Chip families supported:
12	- SD64
13	- Piccolo
14	- Picasso
15	- Spectrum
16	- Alpine (GD-543x/4x)
17	- Picasso4 (GD-5446)
18	- GD-5480
19	- Laguna (GD-546x)
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21Bus's supported:
22	- PCI
23	- Zorro
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25Architectures supported:
26	- i386
27	- Alpha
28	- PPC (Motorola Powerstack)
29	- m68k (Amiga)
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33Default video modes
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35At the moment, there are two kernel command line arguments supported:
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37- mode:640x480
38- mode:800x600
39- mode:1024x768
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41Full support for startup video modes (modedb) will be integrated soon.
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43Version 1.9.9.1
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45* Fix memory detection for 512kB case
46* 800x600 mode
47* Fixed timings
48* Hint for AXP: Use -accel false -vyres -1 when changing resolution
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51Version 1.9.4.4
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53* Preliminary Laguna support
54* Overhaul color register routines.
55* Associated with the above, console colors are now obtained from a LUT
56  called 'palette' instead of from the VGA registers.  This code was
57  modelled after that in atyfb and matroxfb.
58* Code cleanup, add comments.
59* Overhaul SR07 handling.
60* Bug fixes.
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63Version 1.9.4.3
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65* Correctly set default startup video mode.
66* Do not override ram size setting.  Define
67  CLGEN_USE_HARDCODED_RAM_SETTINGS if you _do_ want to override the RAM
68  setting.
69* Compile fixes related to new 2.3.x IORESOURCE_IO[PORT] symbol changes.
70* Use new 2.3.x resource allocation.
71* Some code cleanup.
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74Version 1.9.4.2
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76* Casting fixes.
77* Assertions no longer cause an oops on purpose.
78* Bug fixes.
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81Version 1.9.4.1
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83* Add compatibility support.  Now requires a 2.1.x, 2.2.x or 2.3.x kernel.
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86Version 1.9.4
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88* Several enhancements, smaller memory footprint, a few bugfixes.
89* Requires kernel 2.3.14-pre1 or later.
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92Version 1.9.3
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94* Bundled with kernel 2.3.14-pre1 or later.
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