From: Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: rotation.
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 11:48:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030108104817.GA10165@iliana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0301081120540.21171-100000@vervain.sonytel.be>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-08 10:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-07 22:44 rotation James Simmons
2003-01-08 10:24 ` rotation Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-01-08 10:48 ` Sven Luther [this message]
2003-01-08 11:25 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] rotation Måns Rullgård
2003-01-08 12:05 ` John Bradford
2003-01-08 12:55 ` Sven Luther
2003-01-09 10:00 ` Helge Hafting
2003-01-09 19:59 ` James Simmons
2003-01-09 23:03 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-09 22:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-10 3:45 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-09 19:45 ` James Simmons
2003-01-09 19:44 ` rotation James Simmons
2003-01-08 16:56 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] rotation Antonino Daplas
2003-01-09 19:54 ` James Simmons
2003-01-10 10:26 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-01-10 19:42 ` James Simmons
2003-01-10 21:10 ` Kernel 2.5.55 failed to boot with ACPI support Ole J. Hagen
2003-01-11 5:13 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] rotation Antonino Daplas
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