Re: [PATCH for-9.2 00/53] arm: Drop deprecated boards

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 7:04 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> The PXA display device doesn't pass anything through to the guest,
> by the way -- it just draws the pixels in the guest framebuffer
> in a different place in the UI window. As the FIXME comment in
> pxa2xx_lcd.c notes, this should really have been done in common
> code, not in a specific display driver.

spitz also passes it through SPITZ_GPIO_SWB ("Tablet mode"), though
it's incomplete because it should have treated 180 the same as 0.

> As we both note, the UI input layer part *is* generic code so it
> will do the rotation regardless of whether the display device is
> also rotating the guest output. But that seems to me more of
> an accident than an intentional feature.

Yes, it is, though it *is* working. On the other hand I doubt anyone
is using it. Since we have in the past removed single options like
-alt-grab, whoever needs it can resurrect the code from git and add
the options to -display. They can also add rotation of the output as a
separate knob from rotation of the input.

Paolo