Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] 180 degrees rotation support for NVIDIA Tegra DRM

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 22:16, Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The panel's orientation could be parsed by any panel driver and then
> assigned as the connector's property in order to allow userspace/FB-core
> to decide what to do with the rotated display. Apparently upstream
> kernel supports only that one Samsung device which has display panel
> mounted upside-down and it already uses the custom DT properties for
> achieving the 180 rotation. So I don't quite see any panel drivers that
> instantly could benefit from using the rotation property. Perhaps I can
> add the orientation support to the panel-simple driver, but will it be
> useful to anyone?

Yes, exposing it to userspace is helpful, since Weston at least will
parse the property and then apply the correct transform:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/merge_requests/315

Cheers,
Daniel