On Saturday, August 6th, 2022 at 21:56, Hoosier, Matt <matt.hoos...@garmin.com> wrote:
> Any idea what’s up with some compositors adding code to infer > DRM_FORMAT_MOD_LINEAR semantics when the buffer’s modifiers are set > to 0? What does that mean? A buffer only has a single modifier, and LINEAR == 0. > Wlroots, for example, added this as a “safety net for drm drivers not > announcing modifiers”. > > https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/wlroots/-/merge_requests/63 This is not upstream wlroots. This change doesn't make sense to me at all. Either a driver supports modifiers and advertises support for it, either it doesn't and gbm_surface_create_with_modifiers fails. At any rate, forcing LINEAR in this code-path doesn't make sense.
