`EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import`: advertise which hints are supported

[Simon Ser]

EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import has a number of hints:

        EGL_YUV_COLOR_SPACE_HINT_EXT    0x327B
        EGL_SAMPLE_RANGE_HINT_EXT       0x327C
        EGL_YUV_CHROMA_HORIZONTAL_SITING_HINT_EXT  0x327D
        EGL_YUV_CHROMA_VERTICAL_SITING_HINT_EXT    0x327E

However there is no way for an EGL client to figure out which hints will be taken into account by the driver, and which will be ignored. It would be nice to allow EGL clients to query this information.

Ref https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/153

[Jeff Vigil]

Sounds interesting. Whatever you work out with freedesktop will have that support. From that I guess you can decide if a new EGL extension is needed or a version 2 of EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import_modifiers?

[Simon Ser]

Right. The naive solution would be to just add a new empty EGL_MESA_image_dma_buf_import_hints extension with the only purpose of indicating that the hints are supported and taken into account by the driver.

[Jeff Vigil]

Sounds like a start to a proposal. Bounce a proposal off MESA/FreeDesktop people since its your expertise. I and Jon will review for a good extension. thx