Hi LAurent,
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 19:19, Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com wrote:
On Monday 01 August 2011 11:49:46 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
As several of the FOURCC formats duplicate formats you can already specify in some other way (e.g. the RGB and greyscale formats), and as FOURCC makes life easier for the application writer, I'm wondering whether it makes sense to add FOURCC support in the generic layer for drivers that don't support it? I.e. the generic layer would fill in fb_var_screeninfo depending on the requested FOURCC mode, if possible.
That's a good idea, but I'd like to add that in a second step. I'm working on a proof-of-concept by porting a driver to the FOURCC-based API first.
Sure! I was just mentioning it, so we keep it in the back of our head and don't make decisions now that would make it impossible to add that later.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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