Re: [PATCH] ARM: tegra: enable console framebuffer rotation

From: Andreas Färber
Date: Fri May 09 2014 - 10:20:16 EST


Am 08.05.2014 01:40, schrieb Alex Courbot:
> On 05/08/2014 12:57 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 05/06/2014 09:18 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>>> Console rotation is needed for devices like Tegra Note 7 and NVIDIA
>>> SHIELD to get the boot console in the expected orientation.
>>
>> I've squashed this into Tegra's for-3.16/defconfig branch.
>>
>> Can you please also update multi_v7_defconfig, and send that change to
>> arm-soc (arm@xxxxxxxxxx) to be applied. Thanks.
>
> I omitted doing this for now because the devices that require this
> option (TN7/SHIELD) need a custom build with appended DTB and/or
> command-line anyway. Therefore they cannot use a multi-mach kernel

What does appending a .dtb have to do with whether or not to use a
multi-mach kernel? We package zImage/uImage and .dtbs separately, so
surely the multi_v7_defconfig should be kept working with Tegra devices.
Appending a .dtb only comes into play for preparing installation images.

Regards,
Andreas

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