From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Multiboot video support
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:37:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100125073709.GC13584@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5d587fb1001241529j2f467d78u876e34b2cb32617f@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:29:41AM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2010/1/24 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>:
> > There is a big difference between orientation and the rest of fields:
> > orientation is configuration variable whereas other fields are a
> > hardware information. [...]
>
> Unlike font, background image or logos the orientation of the screen
> is hardware property.
I think nobody wants font, background image or logos to be part of the
transferred data, as it's clearly overkill.
As for orientation of a screen, I don't know if you'd call this hardware
information, but if a screen is physically rotated, it's clearly not
software.
--
Robert Millan
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-25 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-14 14:55 [PATCH] Multiboot video support Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-15 14:50 ` Vladimir 'phi-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-15 15:44 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-19 22:41 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-20 11:43 ` Michal Suchanek
2010-01-24 19:02 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-24 21:05 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-24 23:29 ` Michal Suchanek
2010-01-25 7:37 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2010-01-25 9:26 ` Michal Suchanek
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