[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] st/xorg: add some support for non 32-bit color solid fills

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Aug 24 01:05:00 PDT 2011


On Die, 2011-05-17 at 18:30 +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote: 
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:27:45AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Die, 2011-05-17 at 00:12 +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote: 
> > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:51:58PM +0200, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> > > > Otherwise, doesn't really look hacky to me - unless we could get other
> > > > channel ordering or something similar...
> > > 
> > > It makes assumptions about how color components are ordered and what are
> > > their widths - e.g. it can't distinguish r5g6b5 from a1r5g5b5.
> > 
> > Such assumptions should be fine for non-RENDER operations. For RENDER,
> > maybe you could use something like exaGetRGBAFromPixel, at least for
> > inspiration.
> 
> The problem is that exa does not pass format to PrepareSolid - only raw color
> data and depth, but pipe_context->clear wants float[4], so we need to figure
> out color format first. (Or add raw_clear operation...)

I've posted a simpler fix for this.


> Accelerating RENDER operations should not be a big problem for gallium, because
> exa passes all formats (through PicturePtr). For now xorg st fallbacks too much,
> but this is something I'm going to tackle soon.

Have you come up with anything yet?


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