On Don, 2013-05-16 at 10:59 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 16:28 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Don, 2013-05-16 at 09:06 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > > This series introduces bytewise formats for framebuffers, and fixes the > > > vector representation on big-endian. No damage to piglit on > > > little-endian, > > > but fixes a few thousand on big-endian, enough to make gnome-shell work > > > correctly. > > > > Nice. I don't have a lot of bandwidth for reviewing this thoroughly > > right now, but the format related changes look good to me on a quick > > glance. Just one thing: Why do you call the new formats 'bytewise'? That > > term seems more appropriate for the existing formats to this non-native > > English speaker, I'd call the new formats 'packed' or something along > > those lines. > > Eh, had to make up something. I was sort of looking for an adjective > for "these formats imply a byte-level ordering" as opposed to "these > formats have whatever vector order is platform-convenient", but packed > probably makes more sense.
The memory layout of the new formats depends on the host endianness. They're essentially defined as packed 32 bit values. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
