Re: [PATCH 1/3] drm/fourcc: Add missing big-endian XRGB1555 and RGB565 formats

["Michel Dänzer" <michel.daenzer@mailbox.org>]

On 2022-07-11 17:30, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Michel,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 5:23 PM Michel Dänzer
> <michel.daenzer@mailbox.org> wrote:
>> On 2022-07-08 20:21, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> 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@linux-m68k.org>
>>> ---
>>> Cirrus is the only driver setting quirk_addfb_prefer_host_byte_order
>>> and supporting RGB565 or XRGB1555, but no one tried that on big-endian?
>>> Cirrus does not support DRM_FORMAT_RGB565 | DRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN
>>> in cirrus_fb_create, so you cannot get a graphical text console.
>>>
>>> Do we need these definitions on little-endian platforms, too?
>>> Would it be better to use "DRM_FORMAT_{XRGB1555,RGB565} |
>>> DRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN" instead of "DRM_FORMAT_HOST_{XRGB1555,RGB565}" in
>>> formats[]?
>>
>> The intention of DRM_FORMAT_HOST_* is that they are macros in include/drm/drm_fourcc.h which just map to little endian formats defined in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c. Since this is not possible for big endian hosts for XRGB1555 or RGB565 (or any other format with non-8-bit components), this isn't applicable here.
> 
> I read that as that you prefer to write
> "DRM_FORMAT_{XRGB1555,RGB565} | DRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN" in formats[]?

In other drivers for hardware which can access these formats as big endian, yes.

Note that AFAIK little if any user-space code uses DRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN yet though.


>> It's also doubtful that Cirrus hardware would access these formats as big endian (drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/cirrus.c has no endianness references at all, and the hardware was surely designed for x86 first and foremost).
>>
>> Instead, fbcon (and user space) needs to convert to little endian when using DRM_FORMAT_HOST_{XRGB1555,RGB565} with the cirrus driver on big endian hosts.
> 
> Yeah, probably the cirrus driver can use some fixes...

I suspect the fix here would rather need to be in the DRM glue code for fbcon than in the driver. Or maybe some kind of byte-swapping helper(s) which can be used by drivers.


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