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@@ -532,6 +532,29 @@ security model option, or switch to ``virtiofs``.   The virtiofs daemon
 ``virtiofsd`` uses vhost to eliminate the high latency costs of the 9p
 ``proxy`` backend.
 
+``-portrait`` and ``-rotate`` (since 9.2)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The ``-portrait`` and ``-rotate`` options were documented as only
+working with the PXA LCD device, and all the machine types using
+that display device were removed in 9.2, so these options also
+have been dropped.
+
+These options were intended to simulate a mobile device being
+rotated by the user, and had three effects:
+
+* the display output was rotated by 90, 180 or 270 degrees
+* the mouse/trackpad input was rotated the opposite way
+* the machine model would signal to the guest about its
+  orientation
+
+Of these three things, the input-rotation was coded without being
+restricted to boards which supported the full set of device-rotation
+handling, so in theory the options were usable on other machine models
+to produce an odd effect (rotating input but not display output). But
+this was never intended or documented behaviour, so we have dropped
+the options along with the machine models they were intended for.
+
 User-mode emulator command line arguments
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