11 Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
19 Version 2, August 25, 2010
23 EGL Extension #not assigned
27 Requires EGL 1.4 or later. This extension is written against the
28 wording of the EGL 1.4 specification.
30 EGL_KHR_base_image is required.
34 This extension provides entry points for integrating EGLImage with the
35 Linux DRM mode setting and memory management drivers. The extension
36 lets applications create EGLImages without a client API resource and
37 lets the application get the DRM buffer handles.
41 Open-source; freely implementable.
43 New Procedures and Functions
45 EGLImageKHR eglCreateDRMImageMESA(EGLDisplay dpy,
46 const EGLint *attrib_list);
48 EGLBoolean eglExportDRMImageMESA(EGLDisplay dpy,
56 Accepted in the <attrib_list> parameter of eglCreateDRMImageMESA:
58 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_FORMAT_MESA 0x31D0
59 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_MESA 0x31D1
61 Accepted as values for the EGL_IMAGE_FORMAT_MESA attribute:
63 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_FORMAT_ARGB32_MESA 0x31D2
65 Bits accepted in EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_MESA:
67 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_SCANOUT_MESA 0x0001
68 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_SHARE_MESA 0x0002
69 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_CURSOR_MESA 0x0004
71 Accepted in the <target> parameter of eglCreateImageKHR:
73 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_MESA 0x31D3
75 Use when importing drm buffer:
77 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_STRIDE_MESA 0x31D4
78 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_FORMAT_MESA 0x31D0
80 Additions to the EGL 1.4 Specification:
82 To create a DRM EGLImage, call
84 EGLImageKHR eglCreateDRMImageMESA(EGLDisplay dpy,
85 const EGLint *attrib_list);
87 In the attribute list, pass EGL_WIDTH, EGL_HEIGHT and format and
88 use in the attrib list using EGL_DRM_BUFFER_FORMAT_MESA and
89 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_MESA. The only format specified by this
90 extension is EGL_DRM_BUFFER_FORMAT_ARGB32_MESA, where each pixel
91 is a CPU-endian, 32-bit quantity, with alpha in the upper 8 bits,
92 then red, then green, then blue. The bit values accepted by
93 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_MESA are EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_SCANOUT_MESA,
94 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_SHARE_MESA and EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_CURSOR_MESA.
95 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_SCANOUT_MESA requests that the created EGLImage
96 should be usable as a scanout buffer with the DRM kernel
97 modesetting API. EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_SHARE_MESA requests that the
98 EGLImage can be shared with other processes by passing the
99 underlying DRM buffer name. EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_CURSOR_MESA
100 requests that the image must be usable as a cursor with KMS. When
101 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_USE_CURSOR_MESA is set, width and height must both
104 To create a process local handle or a global DRM name for a
107 EGLBoolean eglExportDRMImageMESA(EGLDisplay dpy,
113 If <name> is non-NULL, a global name is assigned to the image and
114 written to <name>, the handle (local to the DRM file descriptor,
115 for use with DRM kernel modesetting API) is written to <handle> if
116 non-NULL and the stride (in bytes) is written to <stride>, if
119 Import a shared buffer by calling eglCreateImageKHR with
120 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_MESA as the target, using EGL_WIDTH, EGL_HEIGHT,
121 EGL_DRM_BUFFER_FORMAT_MESA, EGL_DRM_BUFFER_STRIDE_MESA
126 1. Why don't we use eglCreateImageKHR with a target that
127 indicates that we want to create an EGLImage from scratch?
129 RESOLVED: The eglCreateImageKHR entry point is reserved for
130 creating an EGLImage from an already existing client API
131 resource. This is fine when we're creating the EGLImage from
132 an existing DRM buffer name, it doesn't seem right to overload
133 the function to also allocate the underlying resource.
135 2. Why don't we use an eglQueryImageMESA type functions for
136 querying the DRM EGLImage attributes (name, handle, and stride)?
138 RESOLVED: The eglQueryImage function has been proposed often,
139 but it goes against the EGLImage design. EGLImages are opaque
140 handles to a 2D array of pixels, which can be passed between
141 client APIs. By referencing an EGLImage in a client API, the
142 EGLImage target (a texture, a renderbuffer or such) can be
143 used to query the attributes of the EGLImage. We don't have a
144 full client API for creating and querying DRM buffers, though,
145 so we use a new EGL extension entry point instead.
149 Version 1, June 3, 2010
150 Initial draft (Kristian Høgsberg)
151 Version 2, August 25, 2010
152 Flesh out the extension a bit, add final EGL tokens, capture
153 some of the original discussion in the issues section.