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26.\"	from: OpenBSD: creator.4,v 1.20 2005/03/05 01:48:59 miod Exp
27.\" $FreeBSD: stable/9/share/man/man4/man4.sparc64/creator.4 208027 2010-05-13 12:07:55Z uqs $
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29.Dd June 18, 2005
30.Dt CREATOR 4 sparc64
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm creator
34.Nd "accelerated color frame buffer"
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Cd "device creator"
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Tn Sun Creator ,
40.Tn Sun Creator3D
41and
42.Tn Sun Elite3D
43cards are color frame buffers with graphics acceleration available for
44.Tn UltraSPARC
45workstations with
46.Tn UPA
47slots.
48The
49.Nm
50driver interfaces those frame buffers with the
51.Xr syscons 4
52console driver.
53It also provides separate character devices
54.Pa /dev/fb*
55allowing to
56.Xr mmap 2
57these frame buffers
58(used by X11).
59.Sh FILES
60.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/fb*"
61.It Pa /dev/fb*
62.Nm
63device nodes
64.El
65.Sh SEE ALSO
66.Xr machfb 4 ,
67.Xr syscons 4
68.Sh HISTORY
69The
70.Nm
71driver first appeared in
72.Ox 3.2 .
73The first
74.Fx
75version to include it was
76.Fx 5.2 .
77.Sh AUTHORS
78.An -nosplit
79The
80.Nm
81driver was written by
82.An "Jake Burkholder" Aq jake@FreeBSD.org
83roughly based on the
84.Ox
85driver written by
86.An "Jason L. Wright" .
87.Sh CAVEATS
88Font loading and mode switching are not implemented.
89