[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm: Make fbdev inherit the crtc's initial rotation

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 06:11:04PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> So I recently bought a (second-hand) Bay Trail tablet which has its LCD
> mounted upside-down. As such I've ported Ville Syrjala's patches to deal
> with this to current mainline and I'm hereby posting them upstream
> for merging.
> 
> These patches fix the kernel-console as well as the boot-splash
> (at leats plymouth does not reset the rotation) being upside down as
> soon as a native kms driver such as the i915 driver is loaded.
> 
> This fixes the orientation of the displayed image from boot till the
> Xserver or a Wayland compositor takes over.

It doesn't work for X? Using -modesetting perhaps? IIRC it worked just
fine with -intel way back when.

> 
> I've a patch for iio-sensor-proxy which fixes the rotation under Xorg /
> Wayland when using a desktop environment which honors iio-sensor-proxy's
> rotation detection:
> https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/pull/162

Or is it just this thing that clobbers what the DDX inherited from the
kernel as the initial rotation?

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC