[PATCH 1/3] drm/fourcc: Add missing big-endian XRGB1555 and RGB565 formats
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Jul 12 09:03:05 UTC 2022
> > As described above DRM_FORMAT_HOST_RGB565 means bigendian on bigendian
> > hosts and little endian on little endian hosts. Which is not correct
> > when your hardware does big endian no matter what.
>
> But (a) drm_driver_legacy_fb_format() uses DRM_FORMAT_HOST_RGB565
> if quirk_addfb_prefer_host_byte_order is set,
Ah, right. Missed that in 'git grep' output. Given that traditional
fbdev behavior is to expect native byte order using
DRM_FORMAT_HOST_RGB565 there makes sense indeed.
Scratch my comment about it being unused then ;)
thanks,
Gerd
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