ABI navigator for libdrm

[Rob Clark]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Andrey Ponomarenko
<andrewponomarenko at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 27.02.2017, 15:30, "Rob Clark":
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:41 AM, Andrey Ponomarenko:
>>>  26.02.2017, 22:15, "Daniel Vetter":
>>>>  On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Andrey Ponomarenko:
>>>>>   Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>>   I'd like to present the ABI Navigator project to search for binary
>>>>> symbols (functions, global data, etc.) across recent versions of the libdrm
>>>>> and other open-source libraries:
>>>>> https://abi-laboratory.pro/index.php?view=navigator
>>>>>
>>>>>   The project allows to find out in which versions of the library some
>>>>> symbol is defined, added, removed or changed. The data is taken from the ABI
>>>>> Tracker report for the library:
>>>>> https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/libdrm/
>>>>>
>>>>>   Example for symbol drmGetDevice from libdrm.so:
>>>>> https://abi-laboratory.pro/index.php?view=navigator&selected=drmGetDevice
>>>>>
>>>>>   The project aims to help library users and maintainers to resolve
>>>>> issues with missed symbols and navigate through the reports in the ABI
>>>>> Tracker.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Have you ever encountered the "undefined reference" error or want to
>>>>> know whether the symbol is _stable_ enough to import by your code? Try to
>>>>> find it in the ABI Navigator!
>>>>
>>>>  Looks pretty cool. One small suggestion for the UI: Adding separate
>>>>  columns for object/struct changes would be good. Atm it's harder to
>>>>  find these, and e.g. libdrm has a releases with 100% abi compat
>>>>  rating, but still yellow box. The yellow box is because we extended
>>>>  some structs - direct links to those sections would be nice too.
>>>
>>>  Added the "Total Changes" column to the report table:
>>> https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/libdrm/
>>
>> Cool
>>
>> Any chance you could add to configure line: --enable-freedreno
>> --enable-vc4 and possibly --etnaviv-experimental-api
>>
>> It should be possible to compile test and check abi for the libdrm
>> modules for arm drivers (but by default they are only enabled for arm
>> builds)
>>
>
> Done: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/libdrm/

very cool, thanks

BR,
-R