Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Jan 2003 11:48:17 +0100 | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: rotation. | From | Sven Luther <> |
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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 ?
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