MULTI-FORMAT SUPPORT FOR SURFACE CREATION IN A GRAPHICS PROCESSING SYSTEM

摘要

In general, the present disclosure describes various techniques for creation of surfaces using a platform interface layer wherein such surfaces may have different format layouts for various different color spaces, such as the YCbCr color space. One example device includes a storage device configured to contain surface information and one or more processors configured to create a graphics surface within a color space using a platform interface layer. The platform interface layer lies between a client rendering application program interface (API) and an underlying native platform rendering API. The one or more processors are further configured to specify a format layout of data associated with the surface within the color space using the platform interface layer and to store the format layout within the storage device. The format layout indicates a layout of one or more color components of the data associated with the surface within the color space.