From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Luther Subject: Re: Re: rotation. Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 11:48:17 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030108104817.GA10165@iliana> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from smtp-out-3.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.19.233] helo=mel-rto3.wanadoo.fr) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18WDpC-0004Tu-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 02:52:42 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: James Simmons , Linux Fbdev development list , Linux Kernel Mailing List On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:24:22AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, James Simmons wrote: > > I'm about to implement rotation which is needed for devices like the ipaq. > > The question is do we flip the xres and yres values depending on the > > rotation or do we just alter the data that will be drawn to make the > > screen appear to rotate. How does hardware rotate view the x and y axis? > > Are they rotated or does just the data get rotated? > > Where are you going to implement the rotation? At the fbcon or fbdev level? > > Fbcon has the advantage that it'll work for all frame buffer devices. But you could also provide driver hooks for the chips which have such a rotation feature included (don't know if such exist, but i suppose they do, or may in the future). So, we also support fbcon for not left to righ locales ? Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com