[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/3] Support for Android RGBX/RGBA formats

[Emil Velikov]

On 22 April 2016 at 11:41, Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang at android-x86.org> wrote:
> 2016-04-21 21:42 GMT+08:00 Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On 19 April 2016 at 20:38, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
>>> The RGBX/RGBA pixel formats used in the Android EGL don't get configs
>>> created due to the missing formats in the DRI state tracker. This series
>>> adds the necessary formats for configs and DRI images. Support in GBM is
>>> also added as it will be needed soon for Android.
>>>
>>> AFAICT, this has been a long standing bug in Android-x86 which was
>>> worked around with the patch "GLSurfaceView: Be less picky about
>>> EGLConfig alpha sizes". With this series, this patch is no longer needed
>>> and several other bugs like wallpaper not getting displayed are fixed.
>>>
>> In the past similar changes has caused unexpected bugs and/or pert regressions.
>>
>> Although I doubt we'll notice them with the patches on the ML, thus
>> I've pushed the lot to get some wider testing.
>>  Please keep an eye for fires ;-)
>
> Could these be back-ported to 11.2?

In principle, yes. Although I'm quite weary to do so for upstream
releases, considering past experiences (as mentioned above).

Thanks
Emil