From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Fri May 3 00:07:42 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CE815A4CA7 for ; Fri, 3 May 2019 00:07:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (br1.CN84in.dnsmgr.net [69.59.192.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 456DA772FC; Fri, 3 May 2019 00:07:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id x4307dDW090011; Thu, 2 May 2019 17:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd-rwg@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id x4307dJg090010; Thu, 2 May 2019 17:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <201905030007.x4307dJg090010@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Rotating (efi) framebuffer In-Reply-To: <57526b0a-fbfb-e933-1c52-6f96550e6273@FreeBSD.org> To: Johannes Lundberg Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 17:07:39 -0700 (PDT) CC: FreeBSD Current X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 456DA772FC X-Spamd-Bar: +++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [3.56 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.84)[0.841,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[dnsmgr.net]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.94)[0.939,0]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; IP_SCORE(0.05)[ip: (0.16), ipnet: 69.59.192.0/19(0.08), asn: 13868(0.06), country: US(-0.06)]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: gndrsh.dnsmgr.net]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.84)[0.842,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:13868, ipnet:69.59.192.0/19, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 00:07:42 -0000 > Hi > > I have a Lenovo Ideapad where the screen is rotated 90 degrees and I > can't rotate it to landscape mode until I'm in X. How many of you are in > the same situation and would like a fix? Seeing how development is going > with small (tiny) computers it will probably be more and more common > with ultra portables having a "phone screen" which most likely is in > portrait mode by default. This also applies to embedded and home brew / > prototype devices. > > It would certainly be nice if we could have a boot time parameter that > could rotate the framebuffer (just as a data point, I'm pretty sure > Linux can do this). How many would be interested in this? Is there > anyone working on this atm? Not sure I will have the time to develop > this all of my own but thought I'd check the interest at least. Perhaps > a GSoC project? Yes please. > Johannes -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org