[PATCH] fbdev/tdfxfb: Make the VGA register initialisation a bit more obvious

From: Daniel Palmer

Date: Fri Feb 27 2026 - 07:25:20 EST


For a while I was trying to get this working on m68k, for some reason
the card doesn't display anything if it's own video BIOS didn't run..

Anyhow, I spent a long time looking up what each of these offsets
were to work out what the code is configuring and eventually
replaced them with the human readable defines in video/vga.h.

Functionally there is no change but maybe it makes it a bit easier to
look at for the next person that finds themselves in here.

Tested on a real voodoo 3 on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/tdfxfb.c | 109 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/tdfxfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/tdfxfb.c
index 51ebe78359ec..7606e024fa3f 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/tdfxfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/tdfxfb.c
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
#include <asm/io.h>

#include <video/tdfx.h>
+#include <video/vga.h>

#define DPRINTK(a, b...) pr_debug("fb: %s: " a, __func__ , ## b)

@@ -591,7 +592,7 @@ static int tdfxfb_set_par(struct fb_info *info)
vt = ve + (info->var.upper_margin << 1) - 1;
reg.screensize = info->var.xres | (info->var.yres << 13);
reg.vidcfg |= VIDCFG_HALF_MODE;
- reg.crt[0x09] = 0x80;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_MAX_SCAN] = 0x80;
} else {
vd = info->var.yres - 1;
vs = vd + info->var.lower_margin;
@@ -609,59 +610,59 @@ static int tdfxfb_set_par(struct fb_info *info)
info->var.xres < 480 ? 0x60 :
info->var.xres < 768 ? 0xe0 : 0x20);

- reg.gra[0x05] = 0x40;
- reg.gra[0x06] = 0x05;
- reg.gra[0x07] = 0x0f;
- reg.gra[0x08] = 0xff;
-
- reg.att[0x00] = 0x00;
- reg.att[0x01] = 0x01;
- reg.att[0x02] = 0x02;
- reg.att[0x03] = 0x03;
- reg.att[0x04] = 0x04;
- reg.att[0x05] = 0x05;
- reg.att[0x06] = 0x06;
- reg.att[0x07] = 0x07;
- reg.att[0x08] = 0x08;
- reg.att[0x09] = 0x09;
- reg.att[0x0a] = 0x0a;
- reg.att[0x0b] = 0x0b;
- reg.att[0x0c] = 0x0c;
- reg.att[0x0d] = 0x0d;
- reg.att[0x0e] = 0x0e;
- reg.att[0x0f] = 0x0f;
- reg.att[0x10] = 0x41;
- reg.att[0x12] = 0x0f;
-
- reg.seq[0x00] = 0x03;
- reg.seq[0x01] = 0x01; /* fixme: clkdiv2? */
- reg.seq[0x02] = 0x0f;
- reg.seq[0x03] = 0x00;
- reg.seq[0x04] = 0x0e;
-
- reg.crt[0x00] = ht - 4;
- reg.crt[0x01] = hd;
- reg.crt[0x02] = hbs;
- reg.crt[0x03] = 0x80 | (hbe & 0x1f);
- reg.crt[0x04] = hs;
- reg.crt[0x05] = ((hbe & 0x20) << 2) | (he & 0x1f);
- reg.crt[0x06] = vt;
- reg.crt[0x07] = ((vs & 0x200) >> 2) |
- ((vd & 0x200) >> 3) |
- ((vt & 0x200) >> 4) | 0x10 |
- ((vbs & 0x100) >> 5) |
- ((vs & 0x100) >> 6) |
- ((vd & 0x100) >> 7) |
- ((vt & 0x100) >> 8);
- reg.crt[0x09] |= 0x40 | ((vbs & 0x200) >> 4);
- reg.crt[0x10] = vs;
- reg.crt[0x11] = (ve & 0x0f) | 0x20;
- reg.crt[0x12] = vd;
- reg.crt[0x13] = wd;
- reg.crt[0x15] = vbs;
- reg.crt[0x16] = vbe + 1;
- reg.crt[0x17] = 0xc3;
- reg.crt[0x18] = 0xff;
+ reg.gra[VGA_GFX_MODE] = 0x40;
+ reg.gra[VGA_GFX_MISC] = 0x05;
+ reg.gra[VGA_GFX_COMPARE_MASK] = 0x0f;
+ reg.gra[VGA_GFX_BIT_MASK] = 0xff;
+
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTE0] = 0x00;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTE1] = 0x01;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTE2] = 0x02;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTE3] = 0x03;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTE4] = 0x04;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTE5] = 0x05;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTE6] = 0x06;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTE7] = 0x07;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTE8] = 0x08;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTE9] = 0x09;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTEA] = 0x0a;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTEB] = 0x0b;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTEC] = 0x0c;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTED] = 0x0d;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTEE] = 0x0e;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PALETTEF] = 0x0f;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_MODE] = 0x41;
+ reg.att[VGA_ATC_PLANE_ENABLE] = 0x0f;
+
+ reg.seq[VGA_SEQ_RESET] = 0x03;
+ reg.seq[VGA_SEQ_CLOCK_MODE] = 0x01; /* fixme: clkdiv2? */
+ reg.seq[VGA_SEQ_PLANE_WRITE] = 0x0f;
+ reg.seq[VGA_SEQ_CHARACTER_MAP] = 0x00;
+ reg.seq[VGA_SEQ_MEMORY_MODE] = 0x0e;
+
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_H_TOTAL] = ht - 4;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_H_DISP] = hd;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_H_BLANK_START] = hbs;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_H_BLANK_END] = 0x80 | (hbe & 0x1f);
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_H_SYNC_START] = hs;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_H_SYNC_END] = ((hbe & 0x20) << 2) | (he & 0x1f);
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_V_TOTAL] = vt;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_OVERFLOW] = ((vs & 0x200) >> 2) |
+ ((vd & 0x200) >> 3) |
+ ((vt & 0x200) >> 4) | 0x10 |
+ ((vbs & 0x100) >> 5) |
+ ((vs & 0x100) >> 6) |
+ ((vd & 0x100) >> 7) |
+ ((vt & 0x100) >> 8);
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_MAX_SCAN] |= 0x40 | ((vbs & 0x200) >> 4);
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_V_SYNC_START] = vs;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_V_SYNC_END] = (ve & 0x0f) | 0x20;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_V_DISP_END] = vd;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_OFFSET] = wd;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_V_BLANK_START] = vbs;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_V_BLANK_END] = vbe + 1;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_MODE] = 0xc3;
+ reg.crt[VGA_CRTC_LINE_COMPARE] = 0xff;

/* Banshee's nonvga stuff */
reg.ext[0x00] = (((ht & 0x100) >> 8) |
--
2.51.0