linux-kernel - Re: [RfC PATCH] drm: fourcc byteorder: brings header file comments in line with reality.

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Date:   Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:17:27 +0200
From:   Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
To:     Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@...il.com>
Cc:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RfC PATCH] drm: fourcc byteorder: brings header file comments
 in line with reality.

  Hi,

> which software have you used as representative of "reality"?

ppc64 (big endian) virtual machine, running with qemu stdvga & bochs-drm
driver.  Xorg with modesetting driver uses DRM_FORMAT_XRGB8888 (one and
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.

Didn't try wayland.  Can do, but will take a while.  Don't have a
wayland-capable guest install at hand, and installing one takes a while
because I don't have a physical pseries and emulation is slooooww.

> To solve that problem, we would like to know if anything existing would
> break for each possible solution, but no developers using BE have really
> turned up.

That is part of the problem.
And even ppc is moving to little endian these days ...

cheers,
  Gerd