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authorHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>2019-11-18 16:51:30 +0100
committerHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>2019-12-16 12:13:18 +0100
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drm/modes: parse_cmdline: Add support for specifying panel_orientation (v2)
Sometimes we want to override a connector's panel_orientation from the
kernel commandline. Either for testing and for special cases, e.g. a kiosk
like setup which uses a TV mounted in portrait mode.

Users can already specify a "rotate" option through a video= kernel cmdline
option. But that only supports 0/180 degrees (see drm_client_modeset TODO)
and only works for in kernel modeset clients, not for userspace kms users.

The "panel-orientation" connector property OTOH does support 90/270 degrees
as it leaves dealing with the rotation up to userspace and this does work
for userspace kms clients (at least those which support this property).

Changes in v2:
-Add missing ':' after @panel_orientation (reported by kbuild test robot)

BugLink: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/merge_requests/83
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191118155134.30468-9-hdegoede@redhat.com
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@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ Valid options are::
   - reflect_y (boolean): Perform an axial symmetry on the Y axis
   - rotate (integer): Rotate the initial framebuffer by x
     degrees. Valid values are 0, 90, 180 and 270.
+  - panel_orientation, one of "normal", "upside_down", "left_side_up", or
+    "right_side_up". For KMS drivers only, this sets the "panel orientation"
+    property on the kms connector as hint for kms users.
 
 
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