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authorEdgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>2006-08-13 23:24:16 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-08-14 12:54:28 -0700
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[PATCH] add imacfb documentation and detection
Add basic Machine detection to imacfb and some Ducumentation bits for imacfb. Signed-off-by: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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+What is imacfb?
+===============
+
+This is a generic EFI platform driver for Intel based Apple computers.
+Imacfb is only for EFI booted Intel Macs.
+
+Supported Hardware
+==================
+
+iMac 17"/20"
+Macbook
+Macbook Pro 15"/17"
+MacMini
+
+How to use it?
+==============
+
+Imacfb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine.
+You have to add the fillowing kernel parameters in your elilo.conf:
+ Macbook :
+ video=imacfb:macbook
+ MacMini :
+ video=imacfb:mini
+ Macbook Pro 15", iMac 17" :
+ video=imacfb:i17
+ Macbook Pro 17", iMac 20" :
+ video=imacfb:i20
+
+--
+Edgar Hucek <gimli@dark-green.com>