NAME
sti —
HP Standard Text Interface
SYNOPSIS
sti* at mainbus0
sti* at pci?
sti* at phantomas0
wsdisplay* at sti?
DESCRIPTION
The sti was created by HP to provide
uniform frame-buffer access operations for their 9000/300 and 9000/700
series of workstations.
The following models are supported (though not all features or frame buffer depths may be available):
| Model | Bits | Mem | 3D | Machines/Cards |
| VRX | 8 | 2 | HP9000/362/382 | |
| EVRX | 8 | 2 | HP9000/425e | |
| Timber | 8 | 2 | HP9000/705/710 | |
| GRX | 8g | 2 | SGC | |
| CRX | 8 | 2 | SGC | |
| Tomcat | 8 | 2 | SGC | |
| Stinger | 8 | 2 | HP9000/7[12]5/74[257]i | |
| Artist | 8 | 2 | HP9000/712/7[12]5/74[38]i | |
| CRX-24 | 24 | 16 | SGC | |
| HCRX-8 | 8 | 2 | GSC | |
| HCRX-24 | 24 | 16 | GSC | |
| Visualize EG | 16 | 2 | HP B/C-class, GSC/PCI | |
| Visualize FXe | 24 | 24 | y | PCI 32/66 |
| Visualize FX2 | 24 | 24 | y | PCI 64/66 |
| Visualize FX4/FX6 | 24 | 32 | y | PCI 64/66 |
Implementation consists of a set of functions burnt in to the PROM on the card and providing the following set of functions (see below for PROM revision history on functions supported by particular PROM revision):
- Initialize graphics.
- State management.
- Print a character onto the screen using currently selected font.
- Copy a region of the frame-buffer to another location.
- Self testing.
- Exception handling.
- Frame-buffer configuration enquiry.
- Setting colour-map entry.
- DMA parameters.
- Flow control.
- User timing.
- Processing management.
- Miscellaneous utility functions.
There are two modes for accessing the PROM: “byte” and “word” mode. In “byte” mode each 4-byte word contains only the low-ordered big-endian byte of data; i.e., to compose one word of data 4 words should be read and low-ordered bytes of those should be shifted correspondingly. In “word” mode each word contains all 4 bytes of valid data.
PROM revision history:
- 8.02
- Original release.
- 8.03
-
- OSF-extended self test (a.k.a fast).
- Restore display.
- 8.04
-
- Implement
curr_monfunction. - Graphical boot screen.
- Implement “block move”.
- Implement “set colour-map entry”.
- Implement word mode.
- Support for multiple monitors.
- Support
user_datastispace usage. - Support for extra memory.
- Support for
Windows NT (tm). - Monitor frequency reference.
- Early console.
- Support added for: PCXL,
GSCbus, ROM-less operation.
- Implement
- 8.05
-
- Interrupt support.
- Report card's power usage.
- Birds of Prey.
- User interrupts.
- 8.06
-
- Multiple fonts.
- Monitor table descriptor strings.
- PCXL2 and PCXU monitor descriptors.
- 8.08
-
- HP-UX 10 support for Visualize FX
dma_ctrlfunction added.flow_ctrlfunction added.user_timingfunction added.
- 8.09
-
- Addition changes for
Visualize FXdue to rearchitecture for performance. process_mgrfunction added.
- Addition changes for
- 8.10
- PCXL2 and PCXU dual
PCIEPROM map mode, implemented onVisualize EG. - 8.11
- Support for HP-UX non-implicit locking DMA, implemented on
Visualize FXe. - 8.12
sti_utilfunction added (flashing under HP-UX and other sideband traffic).- 8.13
- Colour frame buffer support.
SEE ALSO
intro(4), pci(4), phantomas(4), wsdisplay(4)
Standard Text Interface For Graphics Devices, Hewlett-Packard, Revision 8.13, March 1, 2000.
HISTORY
The sti driver was written by
Michael Shalayeff
<mickey@openbsd.org>
for HPPA port for OpenBSD 2.7.
BUGS
Currently, neither scroll back nor screen blanking functions are implemented.