Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:18:27 +0300
From: Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@gmail.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
        open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
        Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [RfC PATCH] drm: fourcc byteorder: brings header file comments
 in line with reality.
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 12:00:17 +0200
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:

>   Hi,
>=20
> > > ppc64 (big endian) virtual machine, running with qemu stdvga & bochs-=
drm
> > > driver.  Xorg with modesetting driver uses DRM_FORMAT_XRGB8888 (one a=
nd
> > > only format supported by bochs-drm), and we have to interpret that in
> > > bigendian byte order on the host side to get a correct display. =20
> >=20
> > I wonder if that is just an oversight from trying to match OpenGL
> > formats to DRM formats. It's full of gotcha's.
> >=20
> > Did you try with GLAMOR? Do you see a difference with and without
> > GLAMOR? Hmm, but you have no GPU support, so GLAMOR would be through a
> > Mesa software renderer? I think I heard someone say something about
> > Mesa software on BE... =20
>=20
> So, did some more testing to see where we stand.
>=20
> Historical note:  RHEL-6.9 (gnome 2) works fine.  Not of much interest
> here, it drives the qemu stdvga with offb, not bochs-drm.

I suppose this proves the virtual machine itself is correct about
framebuffer endianess? Except you are running it on a little-endian
host machine I presume...

> More interesting:  RHEL-7.3 (gnome 3.14) works fine too.  kernel 3.10,
> but drm drivers updated to roughly 4.6 level.  Runs bochs-drm.  mesa
> 11.2.2.  glamour not used.
>=20
> Most recent:  Fedora 25 (gnome 3.22) looks mostly ok, but there are
> rendering glitches, for example in the gnome activities screen (the one
> you get when you press the windows key).  kernel 4.10, mesa 13.0.4.
> glamor not used, but I think gnome-shell uses opengl (via llvmpipe) for
> compositing.

I believe glitches are irrelevant for this topic, what we are
interested in is if the colors are right or byte-swapped (also mind
alpha/blue etc. swaps).

> btw: is there some way to start a wayland session from a shell (i.e.
> what startx does for xorg)?

Depends on which display server you want to start I believe. I don't
know about anything else than Weston, which is 'weston' for a
logind-enabled system.


Thanks,
pq

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