Re: [PATCH resend v2] drm/fourcc: Add missing big-endian XRGB1555 and RGB565 formats

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 09:55:18AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 9:47 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> wrote:
> > Am 23.11.22 um 17:43 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> > > As of commit eae06120f1974e1a ("drm: refuse ADDFB2 ioctl for broken
> > > bigendian drivers"), drivers must set the
> > > quirk_addfb_prefer_host_byte_order quirk to make the drm_mode_addfb()
> > > compat code work correctly on big-endian machines.
> > >
> > > While that works fine for big-endian XRGB8888 and ARGB8888, which are
> > > mapped to the existing little-endian BGRX8888 and BGRA8888 formats, it
> > > does not work for big-endian XRGB1555 and RGB565, as the latter are not
> > > listed in the format database.
> > >
> > > Fix this by adding the missing formats.  Limit this to big-endian
> > > platforms, as there is currently no need to support these formats on
> > > little-endian platforms.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 6960e6da9cec3f66 ("drm: fix drm_mode_addfb() on big endian machines.")
> > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > > ---
> > > v2:
> > >    - Use "DRM_FORMAT_foo | DRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN" instead of
> > >      "DRM_FORMAT_HOST_foo",
> > >    - Turn into a lone patch, as all other patches from series
> > >      https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1657300532.git.geert@linux-m68k.org
> > >      were applied to drm-misc/for-linux-next.
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c | 4 ++++
> > >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c
> > > index e09331bb3bc73f21..265671a7f9134c1f 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c
> > > @@ -190,6 +190,10 @@ const struct drm_format_info *__drm_format_info(u32 format)
> > >               { .format = DRM_FORMAT_BGRA5551,        .depth = 15, .num_planes = 1, .cpp = { 2, 0, 0 }, .hsub = 1, .vsub = 1, .has_alpha = true },
> > >               { .format = DRM_FORMAT_RGB565,          .depth = 16, .num_planes = 1, .cpp = { 2, 0, 0 }, .hsub = 1, .vsub = 1 },
> > >               { .format = DRM_FORMAT_BGR565,          .depth = 16, .num_planes = 1, .cpp = { 2, 0, 0 }, .hsub = 1, .vsub = 1 },
> > > +#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
> > > +             { .format = DRM_FORMAT_XRGB1555 | DRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN, .depth = 15, .num_planes = 1, .cpp = { 2, 0, 0 }, .hsub = 1, .vsub = 1 },
> > > +             { .format = DRM_FORMAT_RGB565 | DRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN, .depth = 16, .num_planes = 1, .cpp = { 2, 0, 0 }, .hsub = 1, .vsub = 1 },
> >
> > Getting back to the discussion on endianess, I don't understand why the
> > BIG_ENDIAN flag is set here.  AFAIK these formats are always little
> > endian.  And the BE flag is set by drivers/userspace if a framebuffer
> > has a BE ordering.
> >
> > It would be better to filter the BE flag in __drm_format_info() before
> > the function does the lookup.
> 
> I mentioned that alternative in [2], but rejected it because of the
> disadvantages:
>   - {,__}drm_format_info() returns a pointer to a const object,
>     whose .format field won't have the DRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN flag set,
>     complicating callers,
>   - All callers need to be updated,
>   - It is difficult to know which big-endian formats are really
>     supported, especially as only a few are needed.

fwiw this last point is why I think this is the right approach. Long term
we might want to add _BE variants of these #defines so that they can be
used everywhere and are easy to grep. As long as it's just a handful of
places then the very verboy | DRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN is ok too.

With this approach we can make it _very_ explicit what big endian formats
are supported by a driver or other piece in the stack (like fbdev
emulation), and I think explicit is what we want with be because it's
become such an exception. Otherwise we'll just end up with more terrible
cruft like the host endian hacks in the addfb compat code.
-Daniel
> 
> [2] [PATCH 1/3] drm/fourcc: Add missing big-endian XRGB1555 and RGB565 formats
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/0744671ac096a12f0d538906bd324efa71b11400.1657300532.git.geert@linux-m68k.org
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
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> 
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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