[utkarshdalal]

Description

Ships gamescope payload 20261029.3 and the matching libgamenative_drm.so from GameNative/gamenative-drm#31, plus the app side of a per-session scan-out layout (passing the daemon's choice to the guest). No UI, no new setting.

A RedMagic Astra (nubia NP05J, Android 16) user got a soft reboot a few seconds after every gamescope launch: its SurfaceFlinger runs Skia on GLES, and Android 16's Skia cannot draw our BGRA_8888 scan-out buffer (Unable to generate SkImage ... colorType 6), taking launcher, system UI, NFC and camera down with it. Android 14 and 15 draw the same buffer fine.

The daemon now keeps the BGRA_8888 pool by default (nothing changes for devices that work today) and switches to RGBA_8888 only on Android 16+ with a GLES render engine, which it detects from the backend property and the aconfig flag table. The app passes the daemon's choice to the guest as GNDRM_SCANOUT_LAYOUT; a container envVars entry of the same name overrides both sides.

Payload 20261029.3 = 20261029.1 + the new libgndrm_shim.so and libadrenotools_gamescope.so, sha256 e4c4285595bdaf54f9a3829d36d4c3011424c125d53b079637fc554105a0a8c2, live on downloads.gamenative.app and the R2 fallback.

Verified on the Odin 3 (Android 15) with this build: default layout bgra, Celeste and Half-Life 2 at 60 fps with correct colours and the game buffer scanned out directly; GNDRM_SCANOUT_LAYOUT=rgba in a container env gives the RGBA path at 57 fps with correct colours.

Recording

Not attached: the user-visible change is "the tablet no longer reboots"; colours were checked by screenshot on the Odin 3.

Type of Change

• Bug fix
• Performance / stability improvement
• Compatibility improvements
• Other (requires prior approval)

Checklist

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Gamescope display sessions now use the scanout layout selected by the active session when initializing the display surface, helping maintain correct color presentation across rendering configurations.
  • If the layout cannot be detected, startup uses a compatible default so the session can continue.
• Updates
  • Updated the Gamescope payload version.

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Walkthrough

The change adds native scan-out layout reporting and propagates the layout through Gamescope environment setup and X server startup. It also updates the Gamescope payload version.

Changes: Gamescope scan-out layout propagation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scan-out layout selection and propagation app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GameNativeDrm.kt, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopePayload.kt, app/src/main/java/com/winlator/xenvironment/components/BionicProgramLauncherComponent.java	Adds the nativeScanoutLayout() declaration. The launcher sets GNDRM_SCANOUT_LAYOUT from the native value only when the variable is absent, and uses "bgra" if the native call throws a LinkageError. The payload version changes to "20261029.3".
XServer session layout wiring app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/XServerScreen.kt, app/src/main/java/com/winlator/widget/XServerView.java	XServerScreen passes the container’s GNDRM_SCANOUT_LAYOUT value to XServerView. When starting a daemon for a new session, XServerView sets the variable to a non-empty override or unsets it. Environment-setting failures are logged, and daemon startup continues.

Priority: Not assessed

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BionicProgramLauncherComponent
  participant GameNativeDrm
  participant XServerScreen
  participant XServerView
  participant AndroidEnvironment
  participant gndrm
  BionicProgramLauncherComponent->>GameNativeDrm: request nativeScanoutLayout()
  GameNativeDrm-->>BionicProgramLauncherComponent: return bgra or rgba
  BionicProgramLauncherComponent->>BionicProgramLauncherComponent: set GNDRM_SCANOUT_LAYOUT if absent
  XServerScreen->>XServerView: pass layout override from container environment
  XServerView->>AndroidEnvironment: set or unset GNDRM_SCANOUT_LAYOUT
  XServerView->>gndrm: start daemon

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Possibly related PRs

• utkarshdalal/GameNative#2266: Changes Gamescope scan-out allocation and daemon handling of foreign buffers, in the same scan-out data path.
• utkarshdalal/GameNative#2257: Uses scan-out pool row-pitch data for custom-resolution addressing, alongside this change to the pool layout.
• utkarshdalal/GameNative#2267: Passes selected output geometry through GNDRM_SCANOUT in the same scan-out buffer flow.

Suggested reviewers: butilly

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 5515d

Gamescope sessions can still receive inconsistent or prematurely selected scan-out layouts; resolve these before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 16.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the Gamescope payload update, per-session scan-out layout change, and Android 16 GLES stability fix.
Description check		The description explains what changed, why it changed, testing results, payload details, and checklist status. The recording is not attached, but the omission is explicitly documented and the remainin…
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Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Resolution

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Inline comments:
Review comments at
@app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopeScanoutHealth.kt:
- Line 12: Update the marker path in the marker function to store
`.gamescope-session-active` directly under `context.filesDir`, outside the
`gamescope` directory, so payload installation cannot remove it.

Review comments at @app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/PrefManager.kt:
- Line 1966: Update the recovery preference write used by checkLastExit to await
completion of the DataStore edit before deleting .session-active or starting a
session; avoid the fire-and-forget setPref path so subsequent reads observe the
persisted value.

Review comments at
@app/src/main/java/com/winlator/xenvironment/components/BionicProgramLauncherComponent.java:
- Line 583: Update the guest setup path around
GameNativeDrm.nativeScanoutLayout() to wait until nativeStart() has completed
successfully before reading the daemon’s selected layout; do not proceed with
the layout read if startup has not succeeded.

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Files ignored due to path filters: 1

• app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libgamenative_drm.so is excluded by !**/*.so

Files selected for processing: 8

• app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/PluviaApp.kt
• app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/PrefManager.kt
• app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GameNativeDrm.kt
• app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopePayload.kt
• app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopeScanoutHealth.kt
• app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/XServerScreen.kt
• app/src/main/java/com/winlator/widget/XServerView.java
• app/src/main/java/com/winlator/xenvironment/components/BionicProgramLauncherComponent.java

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