[Mesa-stable] [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/2] egl/android: remove HAL_PIXEL_FORMAT_BGRA_8888 support

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 14:47:05 UTC 2017


On 11 July 2017 at 15:16, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
>>
>> As said in the EGL_KHR_platform_android extensions
>>
>>     For each EGLConfig that belongs to the Android platform, the
>>     EGL_NATIVE_VISUAL_ID attribute is an Android window format, such as
>>     WINDOW_FORMAT_RGBA_8888.
>>
>> Although it should be applicable overall.
>>
>> Even though we use HAL_PIXEL_FORMAT here, those are numerically
>> identical to the  WINDOW_FORMAT_ and AHARDWAREBUFFER_FORMAT_ ones.
>>
>> Barring the said format of course. That one is only listed in HAL.
>>
>> Keep in mind that even if we try to use the said format, you'll get
>> caught by droid_create_surface(). The function compares the format of
>> the underlying window, against the NATIVE_VISUAL_ID of the config.
>>
>> Unfortunatelly it only prints a warning, rather than error out, likely
>> leading to visual corruption.
>>
>> While SDL will even call ANativeWindow_setBuffersGeometry() with the
>> wrong format, and conviniently ignore the [expected] failure.
>>
>> Cc: mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Cc: Chad Versace <chadversary at google.com>
>> Cc: Tomasz Figa <tfiga at chromium.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
>> ---
>> I'm about 99.99% sure the above is correct, but I haven't tested it.
>
> Isn't this going to break if there's no driver support for RGBA/RGBX
> which is the case for stable (and master for gallium drvs).
>
Right, I should have send this after the Gallium patches have landed. Silly me.

I thought you guys are carrying the RGBA/RGBX on top of the stable
branch, so this should be safe.
Although in either case, there's limited use of having this in
-stable, so stable nomination withdrawn.

-Emil


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