Re: Rotated menu on EFI?

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Robert Millan<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:03:50PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> 2009/7/25 Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
>> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:33:45PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> >> Hello
>> >>
>> >> Is there some chance that the grub menu could be drawn rotated on
>> >> graphical devices like the efi graphics interface?
>> >
>> > I'm not sure what you mean by rotation.  You mean that arrow keys
>> > navigate back to the top when pressing "down" in the bottom?
>> >
>>
>>
>> No, I mean that the arrow keys work normally but the menu is drawn
>> rotated to match the screen orientation.
>
> As Vladimir points out, this can eventually work on EFI too, but EFI is
> lagging behind when it comes to graphical support.  In any case, if we
> really want to support rotation it should be generic.
>
Yes. As about where to put it I would say to driver so it can be
accelerated if it's possible. For non-accelerated targets rotation
function will be in video_fb.mod
> Btw, were you thinking about rotation in multiples of PI/2, or arbitrary
> floats?  The former is not too hard, but the latter can be a PITA, I don't
> think it's worth it.
>
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