Add support to wl_shm for RGB565 buffers

[Kristian Høgsberg]

Could we add an wl_shm entry point to let the renderer add additional
supported formats to wl_shm instead?

Kristian

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this patch series allows clients to request the creation of 16bit buffers,
> useful for conserving resources in devices with constrained resources when
> using big surfaces such as desktop background images.
>
> I'm asking for ideas about what to do with how renderers are now
> registering wl_shm, needed because they are the ones that know what
> formats are supported.
>
> And of course, any other comments will be most welcome.
>
> http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/tomeu/wayland.git/log/?h=tomeu/16bpp
> http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/tomeu/weston.git/log/?h=tomeu/16bpp
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
>
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