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.Dd June 18, 2005
.Dt CREATOR 4 sparc64
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm creator
.Nd "accelerated color frame buffer"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device creator"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Tn Sun Creator ,
.Tn Sun Creator3D
and
.Tn Sun Elite3D
cards are color frame buffers with graphics acceleration available for
.Tn UltraSPARC
workstations with
.Tn UPA
slots.
The
.Nm
driver interfaces those frame buffers with the
.Xr syscons 4
console driver.
It also provides separate character devices
.Pa /dev/fb*
allowing to
.Xr mmap 2
these frame buffers
(used by X11).
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/fb*"
.It Pa /dev/fb*
.Nm
device nodes
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr machfb 4 ,
.Xr syscons 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Ox 3.2 .
The first
.Fx
version to include it was
.Fx 5.2 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An "Jake Burkholder" Aq jake@FreeBSD.org
roughly based on the
.Ox
driver written by
.An "Jason L. Wright" .
.Sh CAVEATS
Font loading and mode switching are not implemented.