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OpenWF Configuration Developer's Guide
If you are integrating a new display, you must configure and provide the parameters of your display based on its specifications via the OpenWF Display Configuration API (Wfdcfg Library).
OpenWF Display Configuration Library Reference
The Wfdcfg library provides the modes and attributes of your display hardware to your display driver and to Screen. Your display driver (WFD driver) is the primary user of the Wfdcfg library, but the composition manager component in Screen also uses the modes and attributes from the Wfdcfg library.
wfdcfg_device_create()
Create a wfdcfg device

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  - OpenWF Configuration Developer's Guide
    If you are integrating a new display, you must configure and provide the parameters of your display based on its specifications via the OpenWF Display Configuration API (Wfdcfg Library).
    - Before you begin
      This guide is intended to describe how to integrate a new display by setting the appropripate parameters based on your display specifications.
    - Introduction to the Wfdcfg library
      The Wfdcfg library provides the modes and attributes of your display hardware to your display driver and Screen.
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      The files from the compressed Wfdcfg archive are extracted onto your host.
    - Setting timing parameters
      Timing is mandatory component of a mode.
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    - OpenWF Display Configuration Library Reference
      The Wfdcfg library provides the modes and attributes of your display hardware to your display driver and to Screen. Your display driver (WFD driver) is the primary user of the Wfdcfg library, but the composition manager component in Screen also uses the modes and attributes from the Wfdcfg library.
      - Definitions in wfdcfg.h
        Preprocessor macro definitions for the wfdcfg.h header file in the libwfdcfg library
      - WFDCFG_FNPTR()
        Validate the type of a function pointer at compile time
      - wfdcfg_device
        Opaque data type representing an OpenWF device
      - wfdcfg_device_create()
        Create a wfdcfg device
      - wfdcfg_device_destroy()
        Destroy a wfdcfg device
      - wfdcfg_device_get_extension()
        Retrieve an extension identified by a key (string) from a device
      - wfdcfg_ext_fn_port_init1_t
        Initialize a port
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        Program a port
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        Destroy a port
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        Set the power mode on a port
      - wfdcfg_flags
        Flags used in the flags field of the timing structure that describes video timing parameters
      - wfdcfg_keyval
        Array(s) of this structure are used to allow for extensions
      - wfdcfg_mode_get_extension()
        Retrieve an extension from the specified mode
      - wfdcfg_mode_list
        Opaque data type representing a list of video modes
      - wfdcfg_mode_list_create()
        Create a list of video modes associated with specified port
      - wfdcfg_mode_list_destroy()
        Destroy a list of video modes
      - wfdcfg_mode_list_get_next()
        Retrieve a mode (timing) from the specified list of video modes
      - wfdcfg_port
        Opaque data type representing an OpenWF display port
      - wfdcfg_port_create()
        Create a wfdcfg port
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        Destroy a wfdcfg port
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        Retrieve an extension identified by a key (string) from a port
      - wfdcfg_power_mode
        Power modes for display
      - wfdcfg_timing
        Structure that describes the video timing parameters for the display driver settings
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wfdcfg_device_create()

Graphics and Screen4.0 (8.x)OpenWF Configuration Developer's GuideAPIProgramming

Create a wfdcfg device

Synopsis:

#include <wfdqnx/wfdcfg.h>

int wfdcfg_device_create(struct wfdcfg_device **device,
                         int deviceid,
                         const struct wfdcfg_keyval *opts)

Arguments:

device: A handle to the device that is to be created
deviceid: The identification number of the OpenWF device
opts: An array of optional parameters that is terminated by .key=NULL

Library:

libwfdcfg

Description:

This function creates one device. You must create at least one device. Failure to create a device results in the OpenWF display driver reporting an error.

Returns:

0 if device was successfully created; *device is set to an opaque pointer. A code from errno.h if device failed to be created; *device remains unchanged. Possible error codes include:

ENOMEM: Unable to allocate a device
ENOENT: Invalid/Unknown device ID

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