Hi All,
Below is my understanding about how to enable the Overlay in a new
hardware platform. Correct me if I am wrong.
1. Implement the stub funtions in hardware\libhardware\modules\overlay
\overlay.cpp, this will generate a share library liboverlay.trout.so.
2. In SurfaceFlinger, it will create a DisplayHardware instance, and
call DisplayHardware::init() which will create an overlay engine from
liboverlay.trout.so.
3. When we want a OverlayRef from ISurface, we call
ISurface::createOverlay() which will take use of the overlay engine
creat in step 2.
4. Create a Overlay from OverlayRef as it in frameworks\base\libs
\surfaceflinger\tests\overlays\overlays.cpp.
sp<OverlayRef> ref = isurface->createOverlay(320, 240,
PIXEL_FORMAT_RGB_565);
sp<Overlay> overlay = new Overlay(ref);
/*
* here we can use the overlay API
*/
overlay_buffer_t buffer;
overlay->dequeueBuffer(&buffer);
printf("buffer = %p\n", buffer);
void* address = overlay->getBufferAddress(buffer);
printf("address = %p\n", address);
overlay->queueBuffer(buffer);
My questions are:
a. In step 4, as we want paint something in the overlay, should we
just put the image data to the buffer return by overlay->dequeueBuffer
(), and call queueBuffer() to show the buffer?
b. I dont see any update in android_surface_output to take use of
overlay interface, will it be updated to use overlay interface if
overlay is exit in the hardware? I suggest the surface output may try
to create OverlayRef from surface interface, if it fail, surface
output take the display mechanism as before(post buffer), otherwise it
use this overlay to display video frame.
Thanks
Guoyin Chen
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