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From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: "Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] drm: fourcc byteorder: add bigendian support to drm_mode_legacy_fb_format
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 11:00:09 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b306654e-ae14-99f5-d129-8fc1fb8cc05d@daenzer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170425095259.GK30290@intel.com>

On 25/04/17 06:52 PM, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 12:18:52PM +0900, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> On 24/04/17 03:25 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> +#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
>>> +	switch (bpp) {
>>> +	case 8:
>>> +		fmt = DRM_FORMAT_C8;
>>> +		break;
>>> +	case 24:
>>> +		fmt = DRM_FORMAT_BGR888;
>>> +		break;
>>
>> BTW, endianness as a concept cannot apply to 8 or 24 bpp formats.
> 
> To 8bpp no, but it can easily apply to 24bpp.

Any byte swapping rips apart the bytes of a 24bpp pixel, so those
formats only make sense as straight array formats.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer               |               http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-26  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170424062532.26722-1-kraxel@redhat.com>
2017-04-24  6:25 ` [PATCH 1/6] drm: fourcc byteorder: drop DRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN Gerd Hoffmann
2017-04-24  6:25 ` [PATCH 2/6] drm: fourcc byteorder: add DRM_FORMAT_CPU_* Gerd Hoffmann
2017-04-24  6:25 ` [PATCH 3/6] drm: fourcc byteorder: add bigendian support to drm_mode_legacy_fb_format Gerd Hoffmann
2017-04-25  3:18   ` Michel Dänzer
2017-04-25  9:52     ` Ville Syrjälä
2017-04-26  2:00       ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2017-04-26 14:30         ` Ville Syrjälä
2017-04-26  5:53     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-04-26  9:21       ` Michel Dänzer
2017-04-26 12:11         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-04-27  0:52           ` Michel Dänzer
2017-04-27  6:45             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-04-27  7:02               ` Michel Dänzer
2017-04-28 10:02                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-04-26 13:28       ` Eric Engestrom
2017-04-26 13:57         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-04-24  6:25 ` [PATCH 4/6] drm: fourcc byteorder: adapt bochs-drm to drm_mode_legacy_fb_format update Gerd Hoffmann
2017-04-24  6:25 ` [PATCH 5/6] drm: fourcc byteorder: adapt virtio " Gerd Hoffmann
2017-04-24  6:25 ` [PATCH 6/6] drm: fourcc byteorder: virtio restrict to XRGB8888 Gerd Hoffmann

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