diff --git a/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/FloatRect.h b/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/FloatRect.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b08a951
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/FloatRect.h
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2013 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef ANDROID_SF_FLOAT_RECT
+#define ANDROID_SF_FLOAT_RECT
+
+#include <utils/TypeHelpers.h>
+
+namespace android {
+
+class FloatRect
+{
+public:
+    float left;
+    float top;
+    float right;
+    float bottom;
+
+    inline FloatRect() { }
+    inline FloatRect(const Rect& other)
+        : left(other.left), top(other.top), right(other.right), bottom(other.bottom) { }
+
+    inline float getWidth() const { return right - left; }
+    inline float getHeight() const { return bottom - top; }
+};
+
+}; // namespace android
+
+#endif // ANDROID_SF_FLOAT_RECT
diff --git a/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/HWComposer.cpp b/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/HWComposer.cpp
index 5082192..1cdabc4 100644
--- a/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/HWComposer.cpp
+++ b/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/HWComposer.cpp
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
+#include <math.h>
 
 #include <utils/CallStack.h>
 #include <utils/Errors.h>
@@ -880,10 +881,25 @@
         getLayer()->transform = transform;
     }
     virtual void setFrame(const Rect& frame) {
-        reinterpret_cast<Rect&>(getLayer()->displayFrame) = frame;
+        getLayer()->displayFrame = reinterpret_cast<hwc_rect_t const&>(frame);
     }
-    virtual void setCrop(const Rect& crop) {
-        reinterpret_cast<Rect&>(getLayer()->sourceCrop) = crop;
+    virtual void setCrop(const FloatRect& crop) {
+        if (hwcHasApiVersion(mHwc, HWC_DEVICE_API_VERSION_1_3)) {
+            getLayer()->sourceCropf = reinterpret_cast<hwc_frect_t const&>(crop);
+        } else {
+            /*
+             * Since h/w composer didn't support a flot crop rect before version 1.3,
+             * using integer coordinates instead produces a different output from the GL code in
+             * Layer::drawWithOpenGL(). The difference can be large if the buffer crop to
+             * window size ratio is large and a window crop is defined
+             * (i.e.: if we scale the buffer a lot and we also crop it with a window crop).
+             */
+            hwc_rect_t& r = getLayer()->sourceCrop;
+            r.left  = int(ceilf(crop.left));
+            r.top   = int(ceilf(crop.top));
+            r.right = int(floorf(crop.right));
+            r.bottom= int(floorf(crop.bottom));
+        }
     }
     virtual void setVisibleRegionScreen(const Region& reg) {
         // Region::getSharedBuffer creates a reference to the underlying
diff --git a/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/HWComposer.h b/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/HWComposer.h
index a20da08..0462bcc 100644
--- a/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/HWComposer.h
+++ b/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/HWComposer.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 
 class GraphicBuffer;
 class Fence;
+class FloatRect;
 class Region;
 class String8;
 class SurfaceFlinger;
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@
         virtual void setBlending(uint32_t blending) = 0;
         virtual void setTransform(uint32_t transform) = 0;
         virtual void setFrame(const Rect& frame) = 0;
-        virtual void setCrop(const Rect& crop) = 0;
+        virtual void setCrop(const FloatRect& crop) = 0;
         virtual void setVisibleRegionScreen(const Region& reg) = 0;
         virtual void setBuffer(const sp<GraphicBuffer>& buffer) = 0;
         virtual void setAcquireFenceFd(int fenceFd) = 0;
diff --git a/services/surfaceflinger/Layer.cpp b/services/surfaceflinger/Layer.cpp
index 3605dd4..34003b8 100644
--- a/services/surfaceflinger/Layer.cpp
+++ b/services/surfaceflinger/Layer.cpp
@@ -257,10 +257,6 @@
     return crop;
 }
 
-uint32_t Layer::getContentTransform() const {
-    return mCurrentTransform;
-}
-
 static Rect reduce(const Rect& win, const Region& exclude) {
     if (CC_LIKELY(exclude.isEmpty())) {
         return win;
@@ -281,18 +277,10 @@
     return reduce(win, s.activeTransparentRegion);
 }
 
-Rect Layer::computeCrop(const sp<const DisplayDevice>& hw) const {
-    /*
-     * The way we compute the crop (aka. texture coordinates when we have a
-     * Layer) produces a different output from the GL code in
-     * drawWithOpenGL() due to HWC being limited to integers. The difference
-     * can be large if getContentTransform() contains a large scale factor.
-     * See comments in drawWithOpenGL() for more details.
-     */
-
+FloatRect Layer::computeCrop(const sp<const DisplayDevice>& hw) const {
     // the content crop is the area of the content that gets scaled to the
     // layer's size.
-    Rect crop(getContentCrop());
+    FloatRect crop(getContentCrop());
 
     // the active.crop is the area of the window that gets cropped, but not
     // scaled in any ways.
@@ -300,10 +288,10 @@
 
     // apply the projection's clipping to the window crop in
     // layerstack space, and convert-back to layer space.
-    // if there are no window scaling (or content scaling) involved,
-    // this operation will map to full pixels in the buffer.
-    // NOTE: should we revert to GL composition if a scaling is involved
-    // since it cannot be represented in the HWC API?
+    // if there are no window scaling involved, this operation will map to full
+    // pixels in the buffer.
+    // FIXME: the 3 lines below can produce slightly incorrect clipping when we have
+    // a viewport clipping and a window transform. we should use floating point to fix this.
     Rect activeCrop(s.transform.transform(s.active.crop));
     activeCrop.intersect(hw->getViewport(), &activeCrop);
     activeCrop = s.transform.inverse().transform(activeCrop);
@@ -319,7 +307,7 @@
         // Transform the window crop to match the buffer coordinate system,
         // which means using the inverse of the current transform set on the
         // SurfaceFlingerConsumer.
-        uint32_t invTransform = getContentTransform();
+        uint32_t invTransform = mCurrentTransform;
         int winWidth = s.active.w;
         int winHeight = s.active.h;
         if (invTransform & NATIVE_WINDOW_TRANSFORM_ROT_90) {
@@ -331,15 +319,14 @@
         const Rect winCrop = activeCrop.transform(
                 invTransform, s.active.w, s.active.h);
 
-        // the code below essentially performs a scaled intersection
-        // of crop and winCrop
-        float xScale = float(crop.width()) / float(winWidth);
-        float yScale = float(crop.height()) / float(winHeight);
+        // below, crop is intersected with winCrop expressed in crop's coordinate space
+        float xScale = crop.getWidth()  / float(winWidth);
+        float yScale = crop.getHeight() / float(winHeight);
 
-        int insetL = int(ceilf( winCrop.left                * xScale));
-        int insetT = int(ceilf( winCrop.top                 * yScale));
-        int insetR = int(ceilf((winWidth  - winCrop.right ) * xScale));
-        int insetB = int(ceilf((winHeight - winCrop.bottom) * yScale));
+        float insetL = winCrop.left                 * xScale;
+        float insetT = winCrop.top                  * yScale;
+        float insetR = (winWidth  - winCrop.right ) * xScale;
+        float insetB = (winHeight - winCrop.bottom) * yScale;
 
         crop.left   += insetL;
         crop.top    += insetT;
diff --git a/services/surfaceflinger/Layer.h b/services/surfaceflinger/Layer.h
index e7e9585..0ceb15e 100644
--- a/services/surfaceflinger/Layer.h
+++ b/services/surfaceflinger/Layer.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 #include "Transform.h"
 
 #include "DisplayHardware/HWComposer.h"
+#include "DisplayHardware/FloatRect.h"
 
 namespace android {
 
@@ -279,12 +280,6 @@
      */
     Rect getContentCrop() const;
 
-    /*
-     * returns the transform bits (90 rotation / h-flip / v-flip) of the
-     * layer's content
-     */
-    uint32_t getContentTransform() const;
-
     // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     void clearWithOpenGL(const sp<const DisplayDevice>& hw, const Region& clip) const;
@@ -334,7 +329,7 @@
     bool needsFiltering(const sp<const DisplayDevice>& hw) const;
 
     uint32_t getEffectiveUsage(uint32_t usage) const;
-    Rect computeCrop(const sp<const DisplayDevice>& hw) const;
+    FloatRect computeCrop(const sp<const DisplayDevice>& hw) const;
     bool isCropped() const;
     static bool getOpacityForFormat(uint32_t format);