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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 9:47 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >      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.

[2] [PATCH 1/3] drm/fourcc: Add missing big-endian XRGB1555 and RGB565 formats
https://lore.kernel.org/all/0744671ac096a12f0d538906bd324efa71b11400.1657300532.git.geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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