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Metronomefb |
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Maintained by Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml.gmail.com> |
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Last revised: Mar 10, 2008 |
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Metronomefb is a driver for the Metronome display controller. The controller |
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is from E-Ink Corporation. It is intended to be used to drive the E-Ink |
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Vizplex display media. E-Ink hosts some details of this controller and the |
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display media here http://www.e-ink.com/products/matrix/metronome.html . |
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Metronome is interfaced to the host CPU through the AMLCD interface. The |
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host CPU generates the control information and the image in a framebuffer |
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which is then delivered to the AMLCD interface by a host specific method. |
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The display and error status are each pulled through individual GPIOs. |
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Metronomefb is platform independent and depends on a board specific driver |
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to do all physical IO work. Currently, an example is implemented for the |
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PXA board used in the AM-200 EPD devkit. This example is am200epd.c |
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Metronomefb requires waveform information which is delivered via the AMLCD |
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interface to the metronome controller. The waveform information is expected to |
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be delivered from userspace via the firmware class interface. The waveform file |
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can be compressed as long as your udev or hotplug script is aware of the need |
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to uncompress it before delivering it. metronomefb will ask for metronome.wbf |
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which would typically go into /lib/firmware/metronome.wbf depending on your |
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udev/hotplug setup. I have only tested with a single waveform file which was |
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originally labeled 23P01201_60_WT0107_MTC. I do not know what it stands for. |
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Caution should be exercised when manipulating the waveform as there may be |
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a possibility that it could have some permanent effects on the display media. |
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I neither have access to nor know exactly what the waveform does in terms of |
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the physical media. |
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Metronomefb uses the deferred IO interface so that it can provide a memory |
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mappable frame buffer. It has been tested with tinyx (Xfbdev). It is known |
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to work at this time with xeyes, xclock, xloadimage, xpdf.
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