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CGSIX(4S)  —  DEVICES AND NETWORK INTERFACES

NAME

cgsix − accelerated 8-bit color frame buffer

CONFIG — SUN-3, SUN-3x, SUN-4 SYSTEMS

device cgsix0 at obmem ? csr 0xff000000 priority 4
device cgsix0 at obmem ? csr 0x50000000 priority 4
device cgsix0 at obio ? csr 0xfb000000 priority 4

The first synopsis line given should be used for Sun-3/60 systems, the second for Sun-3x systems, and the third for Sun-4 systems. 

CONFIG — SUN-4c, SUN-4m SYSTEMS

device-driver cgsix

DESCRIPTION

The cgsix is a low-end graphics accelerator designed to enhance vector and polygon drawing performance.  It has an 8-bit color frame buffer and provides the standard frame buffer interface as defined in fbio(4S). 

The cgsix has registers and memory that may be mapped with mmap(2), using the offsets defined in <sundev/cg6reg.h>. 

FILES

/dev/cgsix0

SEE ALSO

mmap(2), fbio(4S)

Sun Release 4.1  —  Last change: 19 March 1991

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