Framebuffer is interpreted as BGRA instead of RGBA on nVidia, GL_RGB10_A2

Originator:mcasas
Number:rdar://36824694 Date Originated:01/24/2018
Status:Open Resolved:NO
Product:Mac Product Version:10.13
Classification:OpenGL/CA Reproducible:YES
 
Summary:
glClearColor() produces different channel endianness when clearing a GL_FRAMEBUFFER that is backed by a GL_RGB10_A2 CGLTexImageIOSurface2D. 
glClearColor() works differently on Mac/AMD GPUs than on nVidia: the latter has the B and R channels swapped (i.e. interprets the framebuffer as BGRA instead of RGBA). The latter, nVidia, is wrong, btw.

Steps to Reproduce:

Please see the code in 
https://github.com/yellowdoge/screen_info/blob/master/dcastagna-iosurface.mm

Expected Results:
All architectures should show the same colors, i.e. interpret the framebuffer with the same channel endianness.

Actual Results:
When writing the channel associated to Red in glClearPixels(), nVidia presents a blue output, whereas intel/amd is correctly presenting Red.

Version/Build:
Configuration:
See attached system reports and photo.

Comments

A bit more details on hardware, versions, etc, since there isn't attachments on this radar. The "intel" machine, that works fine, is a: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), running 10.13.2, with Graphics Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB. My favourite program, Chrome, reports GL_VERSION 4.1 INTEL-10.30.12.

The "nVidia" machine, that swaps the channels, is a: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, late 2013), running 10.13.1, with Graphics Intel Iris Pro 1536MB and nVidia Geforce GT 750M 2MB. When I disable "automatic graphics switching" in System Preferences, Chrome reports GL_VERSION 4.1. NVIDIA-10.26.6 355.11.10.10.15.102.

The attached photo is https://i.imgur.com/t9VSXV5.jpg (https://imgur.com/a/4HLGl).

By mcasas at Jan. 24, 2018, 4:43 p.m. (reply...)

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