Hi Am 01.02.22 um 09:36 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > Hi Simon, > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 9:34 AM Simon Ser wrote: >> On Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 at 09:26, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>> What's the story with the Rn formats? >>> >>> The comments say "n bpp Red", while this is a monochrome (even >>> inverted) display? >> >> I don't think the color matters that much. "Red" was picked just because it was >> an arbitrary color, to make the difference with e.g. C8. Or am I mistaken? > > I'd expect 8-bit grayscale to be Y8 instead. I like this naming, but DRM_FORMAT_R8 is uapi already. :/ If anything, we could add Yn formats in addition to existing Rn formats. Best regards Thomas > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds -- Thomas Zimmermann Graphics Driver Developer SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev