Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:42:59 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] rotation. |
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> > Yes. Hardware rotation shouldn't also not effect the way accel > > operatations are done. > > The main difference is if the hardware supports rotation, fbcon will > present it with "normal" data. With the generic implementation, fbcon > will present the driver with rotated data. > > So we need a driver capabilities field either in fb_info or > fb_fix_screeninfo.
We can just test if the rotation hook exist for the fbdev driver. No hook then use generic code in fbcon. Also we have a angle field in var so we can see if the user wants the data rotated.
> Not really. We can dynamically rotate the fontdata using the default > display->fontdata into another buffer. I believe I have functions that > do that in the patch I submitted. (Sorry, I lost it when one of my > drives crashed :-(.
I have that patch. It just has to be updated to the latest changes.
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