Re: [PATCH] Multiboot video support

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:29:41AM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2010/1/24 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>:
> > There is a big difference between orientation and the rest of fields:
> > orientation is configuration variable whereas other fields are a
> > hardware information. [...]
> 
> Unlike font, background image or logos the orientation of the screen
> is hardware property.

I think nobody wants font, background image or logos to be part of the
transferred data, as it's clearly overkill.

As for orientation of a screen, I don't know if you'd call this hardware
information, but if a screen is physically rotated, it's clearly not
software.

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Robert Millan

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