[maemo-users] Screen rotation support

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Tuomas Räsänen wrote:
> Few questions about screen rotation in Maemo http://wiki.maemo.org/Rotation:
> 
> - Why does the kernel need to know anything about rotation? Isn't it
> just the X's business?

Unless you don't care about rotation being dog-slow, you want it to
be done by the HW (display controller).  HW is controlled by kernel
drivers, not X[1].


	- Eero

[1] On x86 / Linux X has traditionally been banging the HW directly
     which is "fine" for reliability & security...