Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:

   - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
     than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
     other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
     the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.

   - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
     and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.

   - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
     markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
     will never understand, were of the opinion that
     :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.

   - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.

   - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
  docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
  docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
  Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
  doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
  docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
  Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
  platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
  Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
  Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
  Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
  docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
  scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
  docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
  Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
  Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
  Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
  docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
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+=========
+Tridentfb
+=========
+
+Tridentfb is a framebuffer driver for some Trident chip based cards.
+
+The following list of chips is thought to be supported although not all are
+tested:
+
+those from the TGUI series 9440/96XX and with Cyber in their names
+those from the Image series and with Cyber in their names
+those with Blade in their names (Blade3D,CyberBlade...)
+the newer CyberBladeXP family
+
+All families are accelerated. Only PCI/AGP based cards are supported,
+none of the older Tridents.
+The driver supports 8, 16 and 32 bits per pixel depths.
+The TGUI family requires a line length to be power of 2 if acceleration
+is enabled. This means that range of possible resolutions and bpp is
+limited comparing to the range if acceleration is disabled (see list
+of parameters below).
+
+Known bugs:
+
+1. The driver randomly locks up on 3DImage975 chip with acceleration
+   enabled. The same happens in X11 (Xorg).
+2. The ramdac speeds require some more fine tuning. It is possible to
+   switch resolution which the chip does not support at some depths for
+   older chips.
+
+How to use it?
+==============
+
+When booting you can pass the video parameter::
+
+	video=tridentfb
+
+The parameters for tridentfb are concatenated with a ':' as in this example::
+
+	video=tridentfb:800x600-16@75,noaccel
+
+The second level parameters that tridentfb understands are:
+
+========  =====================================================================
+noaccel   turns off acceleration (when it doesn't work for your card)
+
+fp	  use flat panel related stuff
+crt 	  assume monitor is present instead of fp
+
+center 	  for flat panels and resolutions smaller than native size center the
+	  image, otherwise use
+stretch
+
+memsize   integer value in KB, use if your card's memory size is misdetected.
+	  look at the driver output to see what it says when initializing.
+
+memdiff   integer value in KB, should be nonzero if your card reports
+	  more memory than it actually has. For instance mine is 192K less than
+	  detection says in all three BIOS selectable situations 2M, 4M, 8M.
+	  Only use if your video memory is taken from main memory hence of
+	  configurable size. Otherwise use memsize.
+	  If in some modes which barely fit the memory you see garbage
+	  at the bottom this might help by not letting change to that mode
+	  anymore.
+
+nativex   the width in pixels of the flat panel.If you know it (usually 1024
+	  800 or 1280) and it is not what the driver seems to detect use it.
+
+bpp	  bits per pixel (8,16 or 32)
+mode	  a mode name like 800x600-8@75 as described in
+	  Documentation/fb/modedb.rst
+========  =====================================================================
+
+Using insane values for the above parameters will probably result in driver
+misbehaviour so take care(for instance memsize=12345678 or memdiff=23784 or
+nativex=93)
+
+Contact: jani@astechnix.ro