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

[Alex Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>]

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>
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/simple-framebuffer.txt | 1 +
>> drivers/video/simplefb.c                                       | 1 +
>> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/simple-framebuffer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/simple-framebuffer.txt
>> index 3ea4605..70c26f3 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/simple-framebuffer.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/simple-framebuffer.txt
>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Required properties:
>> - stride: The number of bytes in each line of the framebuffer.
>> - format: The format of the framebuffer surface. Valid values are:
>>    - r5g6b5 (16-bit pixels, d[15:11]=r, d[10:5]=g, d[4:0]=b).
>> +  - a8b8g8r8 (32-bit pixels, d[31:24]=a, d[23:16]=b, d[15:8]=g, d[7:0]=r).
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/video/simplefb.c b/drivers/video/simplefb.c
>> index e2e9e3e..d7041aa 100644
>> --- a/drivers/video/simplefb.c
>> +++ b/drivers/video/simplefb.c
>> @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ struct simplefb_format {
>>
>> 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".

Alex.