D8582: [platforms/drm] Add support for rotation property on the Plane

[Martin Flöser]

graesslin added a comment.


  In https://phabricator.kde.org/D8582#162577, @davidedmundson wrote:
  
  > Do you think we'll need a compositor fallback?
  >
  > *If* we do have a compositor fallback, then I don't see the point of a DRM specific codepath, it's not going to have any slower having a transform in painting, and will just result in one code path not getting tested.
  >
  > To mostly answer my own question:
  >
  > In hwcomposer, it seems we have a transform attribute on the layer.
  >
  > For nested wayland we can set a transform on our wl_surface.
  >
  > For FBDev or nested in X, I don't think we can. But probably don't care?
  
  
  Yep. And that's why I don't want to add a compositor fallback. Doing the fallback looked quite complex when I looked at it due to multi screen.

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