Re: [PATCH resend v2] drm/fourcc: Add missing big-endian XRGB1555 and RGB565 formats

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > Supporting 16 bpp in the driver wouldn't be that much of a problem, but
> > processing the framebuffer on the host side when emulating a big endian
> > guest on a little endian host is painful.  I think I can't ask pixman to
> > do a conversation from DRM_FORMAT_RGB565 | DRM_FORMAT_BIG_ENDIAN to
> > DRM_FORMAT_XRGB8888 on a little endian machine.
> 
> Indeed. But you can do a quick 16-bit byteswap, and convert from
> DRM_FORMAT_RGB565 to DRM_FORMAT_XRGB8888?

Sure doable, but it's an extra step in a rarely tested code path ...

> BTW, does pixman support converting DRM_FORMAT_RGB565 to
> DRM_FORMAT_XRGB8888 on a big-endian machine?

I don't think so.  When you can get the color bits with shifting and
masking pixman is happy.  For rgb565 (and xrgb1555) that works only on
native byte order.

take care,
  Gerd