[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/13] Fix llvmpipe on big-endian

[Adam Jackson]

On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 16:28 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Don, 2013-05-16 at 09:06 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > This series introduces bytewise formats for framebuffers, and fixes the
> > vector representation on big-endian.  No damage to piglit on little-endian,
> > but fixes a few thousand on big-endian, enough to make gnome-shell work
> > correctly.
> 
> Nice. I don't have a lot of bandwidth for reviewing this thoroughly
> right now, but the format related changes look good to me on a quick
> glance. Just one thing: Why do you call the new formats 'bytewise'? That
> term seems more appropriate for the existing formats to this non-native
> English speaker, I'd call the new formats 'packed' or something along
> those lines.

Eh, had to make up something.  I was sort of looking for an adjective
for "these formats imply a byte-level ordering" as opposed to "these
formats have whatever vector order is platform-convenient", but packed
probably makes more sense.

- ajax