Display rotation in Wayland/weston in imx6sx

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:20:07 +0000
Jomon John <jomon.john at tataelxsi.co.in> wrote:

> Paalanen,
> 
> >> >>Transform will work, i tried the same on i.mx6 (with DRM backend)
> >> >>and it was working, but you will need mainline kernel. Not sure
> >> >>whether you can do the same fbdev backend.    
> >
> >Are you sure of the kernel requirement? Weston should be using the
> >composition to rotate the image. Kernel support is only necessary if
> >one wants to hit the composite-bypass path if clients are not already
> >rotating as well.
> >
> >I would expect it to work for all of fbdev/pixman, DRM/pixman and
> >DRM/GL.  
> 
> Sorry, mentioned mainline kernel to setup DRI working with etnaviv, 
> since the etnaviv drivers are not there in the linux-imx.

Oh yes, I didn't realize someone might be using a vendor kernel to
start with.

> I didn't found the any details regarding the output naming for fbdev 
> backend in the man page for weston.ini, so thought that its not possible 
> with fbdev based outputs, please correct me if i am wrong.

It is possible, see the other email I just sent in this thread.


Thanks,
pq
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