[oe] [RFC] Adding screen dimensions to machine configs

[Graeme Gregory]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:43:03PM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>   As was pointed out, interpretation of those vars should depend on
> presence of "screen" in machine features. And yes, then we need to set
> their bitbake.conf default to 0, so only screen'ed machines specify
> them.
> 
>   Also a note of exact semantics of those vars - they provide *some
> default* screen resolution and orientation. Actually not some, but the
> most appropriate after-install default. So, in particular,
> notebook-style keyboarded devices would have:
> 
> MACHINE_DISPLAY_WIDTH_PIXELS=640
> MACHINE_DISPLAY_HEIGHT_PIXELS=480
> 
> A device with vertical PDA layout would have
> 
> MACHINE_DISPLAY_WIDTH_PIXELS=480
> MACHINE_DISPLAY_HEIGHT_PIXELS=640
> 

The problem with this interpretation is that although spitz boots and looks
like it is 640x480 it is in fact 480x640 with rotation. So it may just
be a mistake in your example that spitz happens to show up. Or it may be
something that has not been considered.

Graeme