[PATCH v3 03/19] drm: add msm compressed format modifiers

[Rob Clark]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 7:09 PM, Jeykumar Sankaran
<jsanka at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> On 2018-07-25 07:09, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 07/20/2018 11:42 PM, Sean Paul wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Jeykumar Sankaran <jsanka at codeaurora.org>
>>>
>>> Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets uses compressed format
>>> to optimize BW across multiple IP's. This change adds
>>> needed modifier support in drm for a simple 4x4 tile
>>> based compressed variants of base formats.
>>>
>>> Changes in v3:
>>> - Removed duplicate entry for DRM_FORMAT_MOD_QCOM_COMPRESSED (Rob Clark)
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jeykumar Sankaran <jsanka at codeaurora.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>
>>> ---
>>>  include/uapi/drm/drm_fourcc.h | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/drm_fourcc.h
>>> b/include/uapi/drm/drm_fourcc.h
>>> index e04613d30a13..1c9a6bf8c81e 100644
>>> --- a/include/uapi/drm/drm_fourcc.h
>>> +++ b/include/uapi/drm/drm_fourcc.h
>>> @@ -298,6 +298,43 @@ extern "C" {
>>>   */
>>>  #define DRM_FORMAT_MOD_SAMSUNG_64_32_TILE      fourcc_mod_code(SAMSUNG,
>>> 1)
>>>
>>> +/*
>>> + * Qualcomm Compressed Format
>>> + *
>>> + * Refers to a compressed variant of the base format that is compressed.
>>> + * Implementation may be platform and base-format specific.
>>> + *
>>> + * Each macrotile consists of m x n (mostly 4 x 4) tiles.
>>> + * Pixel data pitch/stride is aligned with macrotile width.
>>> + * Pixel data height is aligned with macrotile height.
>>> + * Entire pixel data buffer is aligned with 4k(bytes).
>>> + */
>>> +#define DRM_FORMAT_MOD_QCOM_COMPRESSED fourcc_mod_code(QCOM, 1)
>>> +
>>> +/*
>>> + * QTI DX Format
>>> + *
>>> + * Refers to a DX variant of the base format.
>>> + * Implementation may be platform and base-format specific.
>>> + */
>>> +#define DRM_FORMAT_MOD_QCOM_DX fourcc_mod_code(QCOM, 0x2)
>>
>>
>> What DX stands for?
>
>
> _DX is QCOM modifier for identifying 10bit version of NV12 format since
> there is no fourcc_code for the same.
>

this sounds like it should actually be P010 then.. not a modifier.. I
think we should remove the modifier before it ends up in a release..

See: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/141342/

from a quick look, it seems like we just need a driver that supports
it to land the new fourcc's

BR,
-R


> --
> Jeykumar S