[PATCH 5/9] drm/color-mgmt: Prepare for RGB332 palettes
Thomas Zimmermann
tzimmermann at suse.de
Fri Jul 11 12:30:53 UTC 2025
Hi
Am 11.07.25 um 14:24 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
> Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de> writes:
>
>> Add helper drm_crtc_fill_palette_332(), which fills palettes with
>> RGB332 color data. Each color in RGB332 format serves as an index
>> into an 8-bit palette that stores the corresponding component-based
>> colors.
>>
>> Vesadrm will use the new helper to emulate RGB formats on top of
>> framebuffers in C8 format.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
>> ---
>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> include/drm/drm_color_mgmt.h | 1 +
>> 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c
>> index 37a3270bc3c2..7ef214848313 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c
>> @@ -817,6 +817,38 @@ void drm_crtc_load_palette_8(struct drm_crtc *crtc, const struct drm_color_lut *
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_crtc_load_palette_8);
>>
>> +static void fill_palette_332(struct drm_crtc *crtc, u16 r, u16 g, u16 b,
>> + drm_crtc_set_lut_func set_palette)
>> +{
>> + unsigned int i = (r << 5) | (g << 2) | b;
>> +
>> + r = (r << 13) | (r << 10) | (r << 7) | (r << 4) | (r << 1) | (r >> 2);
>> + g = (g << 13) | (g << 10) | (g << 7) | (g << 4) | (g << 1) | (g >> 2);
>> + b = (b << 14) | (b << 12) | (b << 10) | (b << 8) | (b << 6) | (b << 4) | (b << 2) | b;
>> +
>> + set_palette(crtc, i, r, g, b);
>> +}
> I think this helper can benefit of having a kernel-doc or some code
> comments, e.g:
>
> /* Calculate the 8-bit palette index from the color components */
> unsigned int i = (r << 5) | (g << 2) | b;
>
> /* Expand R (3-bit) G (3-bit) and B (2-bit) values to 16-bit depth colors */
> r = (r << 13) | (r << 10) | (r << 7) | (r << 4) | (r << 1) | (r >> 2);
> g = (g << 13) | (g << 10) | (g << 7) | (g << 4) | (g << 1) | (g >> 2);
> b = (b << 14) | (b << 12) | (b << 10) | (b << 8) | (b << 6) | (b << 4) | (b << 2) | b;
>
> /* Call the drivers' specific callback to program the hardware LUT */
> set_palette(crtc, i, r, g, b);
>
> It might be evident to you, but I don't think it will be for others looking
> at the code later.
>
> The code itself looks good to me, if I understood it correctly :)
Thanks for reviewing. Commenting this code makes sense. I just looked
again at the r-g-b for loop and the limits are incorrect. Needs to by
3-3-2 instead of 8-8-4. IDK how that happened, as the screenshot from
the test looks correct.
https://imgur.com/a/vesadrm-day4-z2XQ4wA
Anyway that is another fix here.
Best regards
Thomas
>
> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>
>
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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
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