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a captured frame is upright only when the compositor rotated the output in hardware: then the framebuffer holds the logical desktop and the plane turns it on scanout. when the plane cannot rotate, the compositor draws the framebuffer already turned and the capture comes out upside down at 180 and sideways at 90/270. wl_output cannot tell the two apart; the plane rotation property can.

measured before writing it:

  • i915 + mutter (gnome 50), output at 180: the primary plane reports rotate-180 and a scanout dump is upright, identical to the unrotated one
  • virtio-gpu (no rotation property), same 180: the dump is upside down; 90 and 270 give the logical desktop turned inside the native mode framebuffer

so a consumer turns the frame by (output transform - plane rotation), and -ENOTSUP (no property) counts as rotate-0.

drmtap_plane_rotation(ctx, &mask) reads the property now, for the plane the last grab read its framebuffer from, so it is called right after the grab it describes. the property id is looked up once per plane and reused: a call costs one GETPLANE plus one OBJ_GETPROPERTIES. exported in the map, bound in the -sys crate and as DrmTap::plane_rotation() -> Option<u32> in the wrapper. the integration capture test reads it after a grab and expects exactly one ROTATE bit, or -ENOTSUP.

verified: i915 0x1 at 0 and 0x4 with one output at 180 (the other output stays 0x1); amdgpu rx560 0x1; appletbdrm (touch bar) -ENOTSUP. unit 10/10, integration 2/2 as root.

no version bump here; 0.5.8 when it ships.

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A captured frame is upright only when the compositor rotated the output in
hardware: then the framebuffer holds the logical desktop and the plane turns it
on scanout. When the plane cannot rotate, the compositor draws the framebuffer
already turned and the capture comes out upside down at 180 and sideways at
90/270. wl_output cannot tell the two apart; the plane rotation property can.

Measured before writing it: on i915 + mutter (GNOME 50) a 180 output sets the
primary plane to rotate-180 and a scanout dump is upright, identical to the
unrotated one; on virtio-gpu (no rotation property) the same 180 gives an
upside-down dump and 90/270 give the logical desktop turned inside the native
mode framebuffer. So a consumer turns the frame by (output transform - plane
rotation), and -ENOTSUP (no property) counts as rotate-0.

The property id is looked up once per plane and reused, so a call costs one
GETPLANE plus one OBJ_GETPROPERTIES. Exported in the map, bound in the -sys crate
and as Context::plane_rotation() -> Option<u32> in the wrapper. The integration
capture test reads it after a grab: exactly one ROTATE bit, or -ENOTSUP.

Verified: i915 (Sigma-26) 0x1 at 0 and 0x4 with HDMI-A-1 at 180, the other
output untouched; amdgpu RX560 0x1; appletbdrm (Touch Bar) -ENOTSUP.
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  • New Features
    • Added a way to read the captured frame’s primary plane rotation, helping applications account for display orientation. The Rust API returns None when rotation information isn’t available.
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    • Added release notes for version 0.5.8, including guidance on correcting frame rotation.

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The change adds a C API that reads the primary plane’s DRM rotation bitmask, caches plane and property lookup state, and exposes the query through a Rust wrapper. It also updates version metadata and adds capture-test assertions.

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Primary Plane Rotation Query

Layer / File(s) Summary
C API contract, cached lookup, and capture validation
include/drmtap.h, bindings/rust/libdrmtap-sys/csrc/drmtap.h, src/drmtap_internal.h, bindings/rust/libdrmtap-sys/csrc/drmtap_internal.h, src/drm_grab.c, bindings/rust/libdrmtap-sys/csrc/drm_grab.c, tests/test_capture.c
The C API reads the bound primary plane’s rotation property and returns its bitmask. It caches plane and property lookup state, and reports errors for invalid arguments, render-only contexts, missing planes, absent properties, or property-read failures. Capture tests check successful and repeated reads, unsupported properties, and null arguments.
Rust API and 0.5.8 release metadata
bindings/rust/libdrmtap-sys/src/lib.rs, bindings/rust/libdrmtap/src/lib.rs, bindings/rust/libdrmtap-sys/Cargo.toml, bindings/rust/libdrmtap/Cargo.toml, meson.build, CHANGELOG.md
The Rust FFI declares the C function, and DrmTap::plane_rotation() returns Some(mask) on success and None when the property is absent. Other errors pass through check(). Package metadata and the changelog describe version 0.5.8 and the API.

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  participant Caller
  participant drmtap_plane_rotation
  participant current_primary_plane
  participant DRM
  Caller->>drmtap_plane_rotation: Request rotation bitmask
  drmtap_plane_rotation->>current_primary_plane: Find bound primary plane
  current_primary_plane->>DRM: Check cached plane or find primary plane
  drmtap_plane_rotation->>DRM: Read plane properties and rotation value
  DRM-->>drmtap_plane_rotation: Return property data
  drmtap_plane_rotation-->>Caller: Return bitmask or error code
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On a DRM configuration with an active overlay but no recognized active primary plane, the query can report the overlay's rotation and lead consumers to orient captured frames incorrectly. This is a narrow, configuration-dependent risk; reject the non-primary fallback before relying on the result.

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- Line 373: Move the existing “Get the cursor state” documentation comment so it
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Use only a verified primary plane for rotation.

find_primary_plane() returns the first active plane when no primary plane is found. current_primary_plane() then reuses that cached plane when it remains bound with a framebuffer, without checking its type. Therefore, drmtap_plane_rotation() can report an active overlay’s rotation, including after a primary plane becomes active.

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In `@src/drm_grab.c` around lines 2557 - 2558, Update drmtap_plane_rotation() to
return rotation only for a verified primary plane: check the cached plane’s type
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find_primary_plane() falls back to the first active plane bound to the CRTC when
no primary-typed plane carries a framebuffer, and the accessor cached whatever it
found as long as GETPLANE said it was still bound. A later grab could then read a
different plane than the one the rotation was answered for. Now do_grab and the
fast path record the plane they read from, and the accessor answers for that
plane, so the rotation always belongs to the frame it is called next to; before
the first grab it uses the plane a grab would use.

A drmModeGetProperty failure during the name lookup was stored as "no such
property" and every later call returned -ENOTSUP. It now leaves the lookup
pending and returns the errno, so the next call looks again.

Also: the changelog names the wrapper type (DrmTap, not Context), the cursor doc
comment stays with get_cursor(), and the static helper is gone (the accessor
sits in the plane discovery section, after find_primary_plane).

Verified again on Sigma i915: 0x1 at 0, 0x4 with HDMI-A-1 at 180, 0x1 restored;
unit 10/10, integration 2/2 as root.
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