[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] i965: Add RGBX8888 and RGBA8888 to EGL configure and reorder the list

[Emil Velikov]

On 18 May 2017 at 05:10, Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang at android-x86.org> wrote:
> 2017-05-18 12:01 GMT+08:00 Xu, Randy <randy.xu at intel.com>:
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Palli, Tapani
>>> >
>>> > It's just applied. Isn't it?
>>> > Yesterday without this patch
>>> > the color format is mismatch apparently.
>>>
>>> Yeah we do need this. TBH I don't quite understand why but will try to figure
>>> it out. I remember we used to have a patch in Surfaceflinger at one point
>>> because visual was hardcoded there and this might be related.
>>>
>>> // Tapani
>>
>> Sorry, that's for different issue, I mix it with RGB565 blending one.
>> This patch is required because some Android GLES test apps, like gl2_basic, need to create RGBA8888 surface.
>
> Indeed it is.
>
> As Emil pointed out, the patch was merged before
> but reverted later since it broke desktop.
>
> So what's the current upstreaming plan?
>
No idea about a plan, but how you can fix it once and for all:

Extend the loader extension(s) to have a get_caps() callback,
analogous to __DRIimageExtension::getCapabilities.
Then the DRI module will query [the loader] and advertise the
RGBX/RGBA visuals when possible.

-Emil