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

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Message-ID: <CAPj87rPwwHWtYpuZfiTMyELvr3D+UAY8CVnH3v6+Lo1-UMRRVA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 Jun 2020 10:34:41 +0100
From:   Daniel Stone <daniel@...ishbar.org>
To:     Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
Cc:     Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@...il.com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Derek Basehore <dbasehore@...omium.org>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
        "Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ML dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] 180 degrees rotation support for NVIDIA Tegra DRM

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 22:16, Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com> 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