Initial Contribution
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2005 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.
+ */
+
+//
+
+// Pixel formats used across the system.
+// These formats might not all be supported by all renderers, for instance
+// skia or SurfaceFlinger are not required to support all of these formats
+// (either as source or destination)
+
+// XXX: we should consolidate these formats and skia's
+
+#ifndef UI_PIXELFORMAT_H
+#define UI_PIXELFORMAT_H
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <utils/Errors.h>
+#include <pixelflinger/format.h>
+
+namespace android {
+
+enum {
+    //
+    // these constants need to match those
+    // in graphics/PixelFormat.java & pixelflinger/format.h
+    //
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_UNKNOWN    =   0,
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_NONE       =   0,
+
+    // logical pixel formats used by the SurfaceFlinger -----------------------
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_CUSTOM         = -4,
+        // Custom pixel-format described by a PixelFormatInfo sructure
+
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_TRANSLUCENT    = -3,
+        // System chooses a format that supports translucency (many alpha bits)
+
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_TRANSPARENT    = -2,
+        // System chooses a format that supports transparency
+        // (at least 1 alpha bit)
+
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_OPAQUE         = -1,
+        // System chooses an opaque format (no alpha bits required)
+    
+    // real pixel formats supported for rendering -----------------------------
+
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_RGBA_8888   = GGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_RGBA_8888,  // 4x8-bit RGBA
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_RGBX_8888   = GGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_RGBX_8888,  // 4x8-bit RGB0
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_RGB_888     = GGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_RGB_888,    // 3x8-bit RGB
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_RGB_565     = GGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_RGB_565,    // 16-bit RGB
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_RGBA_5551   = GGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_RGBA_5551,  // 16-bit ARGB
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_RGBA_4444   = GGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_RGBA_4444,  // 16-bit ARGB
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_A_8         = GGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_A_8,        // 8-bit A
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_L_8         = GGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_L_8,        // 8-bit L (R=G=B=L)
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_LA_88       = GGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_LA_88,      // 16-bit LA
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_RGB_332     = GGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_RGB_332,    // 8-bit RGB
+
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_YCbCr_422_SP= GGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_YCbCr_422_SP,
+    PIXEL_FORMAT_YCbCr_420_SP= GGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_YCbCr_420_SP,
+
+    // New formats can be added if they're also defined in
+    // pixelflinger/format.h
+};
+
+typedef int32_t PixelFormat;
+
+struct PixelFormatInfo
+{
+    inline PixelFormatInfo() : version(sizeof(PixelFormatInfo)) { }
+    size_t      version;
+    PixelFormat format;
+    size_t      bytesPerPixel;
+    size_t      bitsPerPixel;
+    uint8_t     h_alpha;
+    uint8_t     l_alpha;
+    uint8_t     h_red;
+    uint8_t     l_red;
+    uint8_t     h_green;
+    uint8_t     l_green;
+    uint8_t     h_blue;
+    uint8_t     l_blue;
+    uint32_t    reserved[2];
+};
+
+// considere caching the results of these functions are they're not
+// guaranteed to be fast.
+ssize_t     bytesPerPixel(PixelFormat format);
+ssize_t     bitsPerPixel(PixelFormat format);
+status_t    getPixelFormatInfo(PixelFormat format, PixelFormatInfo* info);
+
+}; // namespace android
+
+#endif // UI_PIXELFORMAT_H