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BWTWO(4S)  —  SPECIAL FILES

NAME

bwtwo − Sun two black and white frame buffer

SYNOPSIS

device bwtwo0 at mb0 csr 0x700000 priority 3

DESCRIPTION

The bwtwo interface provides access to Sun-2 Monochrome Video Controller boards.  It supports the FBIOGTYPE ioctl which a program can use to inquire as to the characteristics of the display device; see fbio(4S)

It supports the FBIOGPIXRECT ioctl which allows SunWindows to be run on it; see fbio(4S)

Reading or writing to the frame buffer is not allowed − you must use the mmap(2) system call to map the board into your address space.

FILES

/dev/bwtwo[0-9]

SEE ALSO

mmap(2), fb(4S), fbio(4S)

DIAGNOSTICS

None. 

BUGS

Use of vertical-retrace interrupts is not supported. 

Sun Release 1.1  —  Last change: 21 March 1984

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