Sl6000 Hardware Accelerated Display?, Anyone figured out how to use it? Options

[cwaig]

I've been looking at the kernel source for the SL6000's framebuffer driver, and I can see an API provided to access the hardware acceleration - but it's documentation is pretty much zero

The only example of it being actually used in the driver itself is the tc6393_clear_screen() function, that uses the hardware rectangle fill to clear the screen. There's a very interesting looking command set provided in the tc6393fb.h file, and an ioctl provided to pass lists of commands to the graphics hardware for processing - but the actual commands (although defined) aren't actually documented

The clear screen example in the driver is
static u32 cmd[6];
cmd[0] = PXAIO_COMDI_DSADR|PXAIO_COMDD_DSADR(((int)remapped_fbuf));
cmd[1] = PXAIO_COMDI_DHPIX|PXAIO_COMDD_DHPIX(xres - 1);
cmd[2] = PXAIO_COMDI_DVPIX|PXAIO_COMDD_DVPIX(yres - 1);
cmd[3] = PXAIO_COMDI_FILL|PXAIO_COMDD_FILL(0xffff);
cmd[4] = PXAIO_COMDI_FLGO;

Using the ioctl interface to the framebuffer, this would be:
static u32 cmd[6];
cmd[0] = 5;
cmd[1] = PXAIO_COMDI_DSADR|PXAIO_COMDD_DSADR(((int)remapped_fbuf));
cmd[2] = PXAIO_COMDI_DHPIX|PXAIO_COMDD_DHPIX(xres - 1);
cmd[3] = PXAIO_COMDI_DVPIX|PXAIO_COMDD_DVPIX(yres - 1);
cmd[4] = PXAIO_COMDI_FILL|PXAIO_COMDD_FILL(0xffff);
cmd[5] = PXAIO_COMDI_FLGO;
ioctl(fbHandle,TC6393FB_ACC_CMD_WRITE,cmd);

and then I'm guessing that if you want to make sure it's completed before carrying on, you can use:
ioctl(fbHandle,TC6393FB_ACC_SYNC,0);

But the tc6393 looks like it can do blitting as well....I've no idea what the rest of the command API def's actually do though?

And glory be - Toshiba haven't released a datasheet for the chip
When I eventually get my hands on my SL6000 (my wife's hidden it 'til Christmas) I'll start trying some of the commands, see if I can work it out through trial & error.....unless someone else beats me to it of course

SDL would go much quicker with a bit of the ol' hardware accel...

[seed]

any new about the TC6393XB video chip ? do someone work on a hardware accelarated display ?
do someone know about video performace of the sl6000l compare to the c1000 or c3000 (TC6393XB video chip vs W100)

[xjqian]

do someone know about video performace of the sl6000l compare to the c1000 or c3000 (TC6393XB video chip vs W100)

video performance seems to be worse than than those with hardware accl.