Re: [PATCH 00/11] Support for 180 degree HW rotation

Ville Syrjälä
2014-06-18T11:57:25Z

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:21:39PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:12:31PM +0100, Damien Lespiau wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:07:17PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > > Now that we have universal planes, I guess the last blocker for this
> > > > series is gone. Thanks for keeping at it.
> > >
> > > Hah. We were last arguing over the property names.
> >
> > But only because the property was on the CRTC and "rotation" (or
> > "primary-rotation") ended up in limbo? The property is now on the
> > (primary) plane object.
>
> Ville also had plans for a superproperty called rotation on the CRTC
> that would adjust all planes. Not quite sure what his final plans were.

I just liked it because it was so easy to hook in at the kernel level,
and it made it possible to test rotation without having support for it
in the ddx. But I don't mind if we just drop it for now. We can revisit
later if there's a real use case for it.

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC