Re: [PATCH] RFC: drm: add support for tiled/compressed/etc modifier in addfb2

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Tvrtko Ursulin
<tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * Format Modifier tokens:
>> + *
>> + * When adding a new token please document the layout with a code
>> comment,
>> + * similar to the fourcc codes above. drm_fourcc.h is considered the
>> + * authoritative source for all of these.
>> + */
>
>
> On one side modifiers are supposed to be opaque, but then this suggest they
> are supposed to be added in this file and described. Is that right?


correct..   opaque as in basically enum values.

We do want a description of the format so when someone comes along and
adds a new value, we have a chance of realizing that it is the same as
an existing value, since there are cases where gpu's from different
vendors can support (for example) the same tiling formats.

BR,
-R
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