Re: How to map depth=30 fb to XBGR instead of XRGB?

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 01:03:39AM -0500, Ilia Mirkin wrote:

NVIDIA hardware, prior to Kepler, only supports XBGR2101010. However drmAddFB with depth = 30 will use the mapping in drm_mode_legacy_fb_format and pick the XRGB version of the format.

One solution is to tell userspace "stop using addfb, move to addfb2". However I'm hoping that there's some sort of semi-clean way of dealing with such driver eccentricities without resorting to changing userspace.

Can the ioctl be handled in the driver perhaps? Or would it be reasonable to add a callback in drm_driver?

I don't think there's any sane way to allow the driver to remap these. How would generic userspace know which component order the driver actually picked?