From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] video/console: Add dmi quirk table for x86 systems which need fbcon rotation
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 17:22:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1946235.rVRVXPVoPu@amdc3058> (raw)
On Sunday, July 30, 2017 07:59:19 AM Hans de Goede wrote:
> Some x86 clamshell design devices use portrait tablet screens and a
> display engine which cannot rotate in hardware, so we need to rotate
> the fbcon to compensate.
>
> This commit adds a DMI based quirk table which is initially populated with
> 4 such devices: The Asus T100HA, GPD Pocket, the GPD win and the I.T.Works
> TW891, so that the console comes up in the right orientation on these
> devices OOTB.
>
> Unfortunately these (cheap) devices also typically have quite generic DMI
> data, so we match on a combination of DMI data, screen resolution and a
> list of known BIOS dates to avoid false positives.
>
> Suggested-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Patch queued for 4.14, thanks.
Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics
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2017-07-30 6:59 [PATCH v6] video/console: Add dmi quirk table for x86 systems which need fbcon rotation Hans de Goede
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