Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] DSS2:Allow FB to build without VRFB

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On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 13:18 +0200, ext Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 14 mei 2010, om 12:58 heeft Nishanth Menon het volgende geschreven:

> > But why use bootargs?
> 
> Because (for some unknown reason) you can't toggle vrfb at runtime. If you realize you need rotation you need to reboot. I guess it's because the memory layout for vrfb is completely different, but again, I'm not a kernel hacker :)
> 

You can. There's rotate_type in the framebuffer sysfs directory. But I
think you need to release memories etc before that, and reallocate after
changing the rotation type.

 Tomi


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