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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] drm: Add XRGB8626262 (RGB 6:6:6) pixel format
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:09:48 +0100
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To: Ville =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Syrj=E4l=E4?= <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
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Hi Ville,

On Wednesday 27 March 2013 13:06:20 Ville Syrj=E4l=E4 wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19:29AM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > This format is an odd beast, implemented by Renesas R-Car hardware. It
> > stores RGB 6:6:6 pixels in 32 bits as
> > =

> > [31:0] x:R:x:G:x:B:x 8:6:2:6:2:6:2 little endian
> > =

> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart
> > <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
> > ---
> > =

> > Hello,
> > =

> > I came across this weird format on a Renesas SoC display controller. Th=
is
> > is essentially XRGB8888 with the two low order bits of each component
> > ignored by the hardware.
> =

> It sounds like it's no different than shoveling XRGB8888 down a 6bpc
> pipe w/o dithering.
> =

> Could we just pretend it's XRGB8888, or can the low order bits have
> some special meaning which would require treating them as special?

The hardware supports both XRGB8888 and the weird RGB 666 format, so I need=
 a =

new 4CC if I want to expose both to userspace.

If the display uses a 6bpc pipe XRGB888 and RGB 666 should be identical. If =

the display uses a 8bpc pipe then the two formats will be different. What =

remains to be found is a use case where an application would fill the two l=
ow =

order bits with a non-zero value and expect the hardware to ignore them.

-- =

Regards,

Laurent Pinchart