Re: [PATCH] simplefb: add support for a8b8g8r8 pixel format

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>]

On 10:11 Thu 06 Jun     , Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/06/2013 02:12 AM, Alex Courbot wrote:
> > On 06/06/2013 04:59 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jun 6, 2013, at 9:20 AM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
> 
> No commit description? It'd be useful to at least justify this by
> mentioning that some platform will actually use this...
> 
> ...
> >>> static struct simplefb_format simplefb_formats[] = {
> >>>     { "r5g6b5", 16, {11, 5}, {5, 6}, {0, 5}, {0, 0} },
> >>> +    { "a8b8g8r8", 32, {0, 8}, {8, 8}, {16, 8}, {31, 8} },
> >>
> >> why don't you parse the string?
> >>
> >> so you will a real generic bindings
> > 
> > Tried that already, got NACKed: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/27/330
> > 
> > The list of modes of this driver should not grow too big. Even in terms
> > of footprint I'd say the list should remain smaller than the parsing code.
> > 
> > What we can discuss though is whether we want to keep this a8b8g8r8
> > syntax or switch to something more standard, say "rgba8888".
> 
> I would prefer to keep the syntax of the new formats consistent, so that
> if we ever do add format-parsing code rather than table-based lookup,
> all the existing formats will continue to work unchanged, without any
> kind of fallback lookup table.

I do prefer a format-parsing than any long lookup table that take time at boot
time

Best Regards,
J.