Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] rotation.

[James Simmons]

> > Yes. Hardware rotation shouldn't also not effect the way accel 
> > operatations are done.
>  
> The main difference is if the hardware supports rotation, fbcon will
> present it with "normal" data.  With the generic implementation, fbcon
> will present the driver with rotated data.
> 
> So we need a driver capabilities field either in fb_info or
> fb_fix_screeninfo.

We can just test if the rotation hook exist for the fbdev driver. No hook 
then use generic code in fbcon. Also we have a angle field in var so we 
can see if the user wants the data rotated.

> Not really.  We can dynamically rotate the fontdata using the default
> display->fontdata into another buffer.  I believe I have functions that
> do that in the patch I submitted.  (Sorry, I lost it when one of my
> drives crashed :-(.

I have that patch. It just has to be updated to the latest changes.