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  17 .Dd October 22, 2017
  18 .Dt FBIO 7I
  19 .Os
  20 .Sh NAME
  21 .Nm fbio
  22 .Nd frame buffer control operations
  23 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  24 The frame buffers provided with this release support the same general interface
  25 that is defined by
  26 .In sys/fbio.h .
  27 Each responds to an
  28 .Dv FBIOGTYPE
  29 .Xr ioctl 2
  30 request which returns information in a
  31 .Vt fbtype
  32 structure.
  33 .Pp
  34 Each device has an
  35 .\" FBTYPE isn't macro, enum, or type, just used to describe a number of
  36 .\" CPP-macros of the form #define FBTYPE_xxxx
  37 .Sy FBTYPE
  38 which is used by higher-level software to
  39 determine how to perform graphics functions.
  40 Each device is used by opening it, doing an
  41 .Dv FBIOGTYPE
  42 .Xr ioctl 2
  43 to see which frame buffer type is
  44 present, and thereby selecting the appropriate device-management routines.
  45 .Pp
  46 .Dv FBIOGINFO
  47 returns information specific to the GS accelerator.
  48 .Pp
  49 .Dv FBIOSVIDEO
  50 and
  51 .Dv FBIOGVIDEO
  52 are general-purpose
  53 .Xr ioctl 2
  54 requests for controlling possible video features of frame buffers.
  55 These
  56 .Xr ioctl 2
  57 requests either set or return the value of a flags integer.
  58 At this point, only the
  59 .Dv FBVIDEO_ON
  60 option is available, controlled by
  61 .Dv FBIOSVIDEO .
  62 .Dv FBIOGVIDEO
  63 returns the current video state.
  64 .Pp
  65 The
  66 .Dv FBIOSATTR
  67 and
  68 .Dv FBIOGATTR
  69 .Xr ioctl 2
  70 requests allow access to special features of newer frame buffers.
  71 They use the
  72 .Vt fbsattr
  73 and
  74 .Vt fbgattr
  75 structures.
  76 .Pp
  77 Some color frame buffers support the
  78 .Dv FBIOPUTCMAP
  79 and
  80 .Dv FBIOGETCMAP
  81 .Xr ioctl 2
  82 requests, which provide access to the colormap.
  83 They use the
  84 .Vt fbcmap
  85 structure.
  86 .Pp
  87 Also, some framebuffers with multiple colormaps will either encode the colormap
  88 identifier in the high-order bits of the
  89 .Dq index
  90 field in the
  91 .Vt fbcmap
  92 structure, or use the
  93 .Dv FBIOPUTCMAPI
  94 and
  95 .Dv FBIOGETCMAPI
  96 .Xr ioctl 2
  97 requests.
  98 .Pp
  99 .Dv FBIOVERTICAL
 100 is used to wait for the start of the next vertical retrace
 101 period.
 102 .Pp
 103 .Dv FBIOVRTOFFSET
 104 Returns the offset to a read-only
 105 .Dq Em vertical retrace page
 106 for those framebuffers that support it.
 107 This vertical retrace page may be mapped into user space with
 108 .Xr mmap 2 .
 109 The first word of the vertical
 110 retrace page (type
 111 .Vt "unsigned int" )
 112 is a counter that is incremented every time there is a vertical retrace.
 113 The user process can use this counter in a variety of ways.
 114 .Pp
 115 .Dv FBIOMONINFO
 116 returns a
 117 .Vt mon_info
 118 structure which contains information about
 119 the monitor attached to the framebuffer, if available.
 120 .Pp
 121 .Dv FBIOSCURSOR ,
 122 .Dv FBIOGCURSOR ,
 123 .Dv FBIOSCURPOS
 124 and
 125 .Dv FBIOGCURPOS
 126 are used to control the hardware cursor for those framebuffers that have this
 127 feature.
 128 .Dv FBIOGCURMAX
 129 returns the maximum sized cursor supported by the framebuffer.
 130 Attempts to create a cursor larger than this will fail.
 131 .Pp
 132 Finally
 133 .Dv FBIOSDEVINFO
 134 and
 135 .Dv FBIOGDEVINFO
 136 are used to transfer
 137 variable-length, device-specific information into and out of framebuffers.
 138 .Sh SEE ALSO
 139 .Xr ioctl 2 ,
 140 .Xr mmap 2 ,
 141 .Xr cgsix 7D
 142 .Sh BUGS
 143 The
 144 .Dv FBIOSATTR
 145 and
 146 .Dv FBIOGATTR
 147 .Xr ioctl 2
 148 requests are only
 149 supported by frame buffers which emulate older frame buffer types.
 150 If a frame buffer emulates another frame buffer,
 151 .Dv FBIOGTYPE
 152 returns the emulated type.
 153 To get the real type, use
 154 .Dv FBIOGATTR .
 155 .Pp
 156 The
 157 .Dv FBIOGCURPOS
 158 ioctl was incorrectly defined in previous operating
 159 systems, and older code running in binary compatibility mode may get incorrect
 160 results.