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from: OpenBSD: creator.4,v 1.20 2005/03/05 01:48:59 miod Exp
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.Dd June 18, 2005 .Dt CREATOR 4 sparc64 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm creator .Nd "accelerated color frame buffer" .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "device creator" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Tn Sun Creator , .Tn Sun Creator3D and .Tn Sun Elite3D cards are color frame buffers with graphics acceleration available for .Tn UltraSPARC workstations with .Tn UPA slots. The .Nm driver interfaces those frame buffers with the .Xr syscons 4 console driver. It also provides separate character devices

a /dev/fb* allowing to .Xr mmap 2 these frame buffers (used by X11). .Sh FILES l -tag -width ".Pa /dev/fb*" t Pa /dev/fb* .Nm device nodes .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr machfb 4 , .Xr syscons 4 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in .Ox 3.2 . The first .Fx version to include it was .Fx 5.2 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The .Nm driver was written by .An "Jake Burkholder" Aq jake@FreeBSD.org roughly based on the .Ox driver written by .An "Jason L. Wright" . .Sh CAVEATS Font loading and mode switching are not implemented.