[Mesa-dev] [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] dri3, i915, i965: Add __DRI_IMAGE_FOURCC_SARGB8888

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:57:23AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 02:12:13PM -0800, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > I don't know what else you'd propose?  Pass an X visual in the ioctl?
> > An EGL config?  This is our name space, we can add stuff as we need
> > (as Keith is doing here). include/uapi/drm/drm_fourcc.h is the
> > canonical source for these values and we should add
> > DRM_FORMAT_SARGB8888 there to make sure we don't clash.
> 
> Well that's kinda the problem. If you don't expect the kernel to clash
> with whatever mesa is using internally then we should add it to the
> kernel, first. That's kinda what Dave's recent rant has all been about.
> 
> The other issue was that originally the idea behind fourcc was to have one
> formate namespace shared between drm, v4l and whomever else cares. If
> people are happy to drop that idea on the floor I won't shed a single
> tear.

I broke that idea alredy when I cooked up the current drm fourccs.
I didn't cross check them with any other fourcc source, so I'm 100%
sure most of them don't match anything else.

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC