[Mesa-dev] Concern about proposed patch "egl/android: remove HAL_PIXEL_FORMAT_BGRA_8888 support"

[Lepton Wu]

OK,

Actually android-x86 has a "workaround" at android side to enable BRGA here:

http://git.osdn.net/view?p=android-x86/frameworks-native.git;a=blobdiff;f=opengl/libs/EGL/eglApi.cpp;h=01eeb6489dd1db98fde2e8c5cda2e0bd36e83f39;hp=94dfe6a9de4b7d3a0064b8cc60e8b856da1be5d3;hb=519828c5b649e5e83f18444666f0672ab7852518;hpb=792c8dc009bd3a0c44eb39e757a95e099c03b54c

Not sure how difficult it is to push this to aosp android.

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 3:31 PM Mauro Rossi <issor.oruam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Lepton,
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 9:58 PM Lepton Wu <lepton at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> That's interesting. The android frame work will hard coded to use
>> RGBA_8888 and set it as window format here:
>>
>> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/refs/heads/master/opengl/libs/EGL/eglApi.cpp#738
>>
>> Do you have a custom version of android which do different code here?
>
>
> Affirmative, you may check [1] for reference
>
> [1] http://git.osdn.net/view?p=android-x86/frameworks-native.git;a=commit;h=792c8dc009bd3a0c44eb39e757a95e099c03b54c
>
>>
>>
>> For other GPU, like intel, if we choose a EGL config with BGRA ,
>> finally we got a wrong color on screen.
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>
> android-x86 implementation selects BGRA_8888 only when RGBA_8888 not available,
> in a similar way to a pre-existing Workaround 10194508 that was removed from AOSP code
>
> Removing HAL_PIXEL_FORMAT_BGRA_8888 support from egl/android
> SurfaceFlinger will just crash with SIGABRT on nouveau
>
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>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:49 PM Mauro Rossi <issor.oruam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > sorry if I'm communicating in dedicated thread, but I don't know how to reply to existing one.
>> >
>> > The proposed patch is based on the wrong assumption that all drivers used with Android have RGBA_8888, which is not correct, for example nouveau does not support RGBA on primary planes, infact we have a fallback to simpler EGL query in android-x86 and we use BGRA_8888 (pixel format = 5)
>> >
>> > If patch does not solve a specific problem and it will cause a regression at least in nouveau, it is recommended to abandon the patch
>> >
>> > Thanks for your feedbacks
>> >
>> > Mauro