[RfC PATCH] drm: fourcc byteorder: brings header file comments in line with reality.
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Mon Apr 10 14:17:27 UTC 2017
Hi,
> which software have you used as representative of "reality"?
ppc64 (big endian) virtual machine, running with qemu stdvga & bochs-drm
driver. Xorg with modesetting driver uses DRM_FORMAT_XRGB8888 (one and
only format supported by bochs-drm), and we have to interpret that in
bigendian byte order on the host side to get a correct display.
Didn't try wayland. Can do, but will take a while. Don't have a
wayland-capable guest install at hand, and installing one takes a while
because I don't have a physical pseries and emulation is slooooww.
> To solve that problem, we would like to know if anything existing would
> break for each possible solution, but no developers using BE have really
> turned up.
That is part of the problem.
And even ppc is moving to little endian these days ...
cheers,
Gerd
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