From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NZJVi-0005Up-8c for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:37:22 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZJVd-0005TW-OW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:37:17 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZJVY-0005SV-AQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:37:16 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35114 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZJVY-0005SQ-84 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:37:12 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:49448 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZJVX-0002xO-Nb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:37:11 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NZJVV-0006pW-OS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:37:09 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NZJVV-0003Yf-7c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:37:09 +0100 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:37:09 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20100125073709.GC13584@thorin> References: <4B4F305D.3080200@gmail.com> <20100124190228.GA8204@thorin> <4B5CB61A.4080705@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Multiboot video support X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:37:18 -0000 On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:29:41AM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2010/1/24 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > > 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