Linux 5.16 To Add Quirk For The Steam Deck, Other DRM-Misc-Next Changes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.16 To Add Quirk For The Steam Deck, Other DRM-Misc-Next Changes

With the Linux 5.15 merge window out of the way, the first drm-misc-next pull request has been sent in to DRM-Next for staging until the Linux 5.16 merge window opens up about two months from now...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=First-DRM-Misc-Next-For-5.16

[tildearrow]

Typo:

The new Steam Deck quirk is adding a panel orientation quirk for it being a 800x1200 panel.

Wait, seriously? The Steam Deck's display is rotated even though it is a console you hold in landscape? Why?

[Wielkie G]

Maybe it's a screen designed for tablets where portrait orientation is the default one?

[b8e5n]

Yes, other devices of the same type also use displays designed for phones-tablets. So the default orientation is portrait. I am not surprised it is the case here also. Good to see it's in the kernel already.

[CFWhitman]

These days most manufacturers of palmtop/handheld landscape orientation devices have to deal with this issue. The vast majority of the screens under 12 inches (edit: especially those ten inches or less) that are manufactured are portrait orientation by default, especially if they have a decent resolution.

[ruinairas]

Typo:



Wait, seriously? The Steam Deck's display is rotated even though it is a console you hold in landscape? Why?

I have the OneXPlayer handheld and it's the same way, I have to put the orientation to rightside up to get it to display correctly, I'm pretty sure the Aya Neo is the same as well.