mesa-panvk-bifrost: r5 -> r6 — advertise VK_EXT_legacy_dithering on Bifrost #94

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marfrit 7708744eb2 mesa-panvk-bifrost: r5 -> r6 — advertise VK_EXT_legacy_dithering on Bifrost
Backports Mesa main's unconditional flip of VK_EXT_legacy_dithering.
Pure-software composition; no new HW path. vk_render_pass already gates
on enabled_features.legacyDithering and panvk_vX_blend + pan_format
already plumb the dithered BLEND descriptor (BFMT2 table has MALI_BLEND_AU
encodings for RGB565/RGB5A1/RGBA4/RGB10A2 on PAN_ARCH 7). Our r5 base
just hadn't picked up the cherry-pick.

Phase 7 verify on ohm (PineTab2 / RK3566 / Mali-G52 r1 MC1) with a
locally-built r6 lib at /tmp/r6_test_lib/:

  Feature advertisement:
    r5: VK_EXT_legacy_dithering not in extension list, legacyDithering=false
    r6: VK_EXT_legacy_dithering rev 2 advertised, legacyDithering=true

  dEQP subsets (delta):
    dEQP-VK.api.*.legacy_dithering*    r5/r6 both:  2 P / 0 F (identical)
    dEQP-VK.renderpass.dithering.*     r5/r6 both:  0 P / 0 F / 94 NS (identical)
    dEQP-VK.renderpass2.dithering.*    r5/r6 both:  0 P / 0 F / 94 NS (identical)

  Net: zero regressions, advertisement-only delta as expected.

Second-model review (per bugfix-process step 4) traced the full code
path through vk_render_pass + panvk_vX_cmd_draw + panvk_vX_blend +
pan_format BFMT2. No interaction with our r1 nullDescriptor (disjoint
paths). Mesa upstream marks ext DONE for panvk in docs/features.txt.

ARM's own libmali r51p0 driver (BXODROIDN2PL, 2024-08) lists
VK_EXT_legacy_dithering in its Vulkan extension string table,
confirming the feature is shipped by ARM for Mali-G52-class hardware.

Follow-up out of scope: the 94 renderpass-dithering tests show as
NotSupported on both r5 and r6 — there's a separate panvk-side
prereq the dEQP harness checks (likely a specific format-feature
combination). Worth investigating in a future iteration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-25 00:23:40 +02:00