[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] intel: Add AUB file dump support

[Zhenyu Wang]

On 2011.02.22 09:33:22 -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> While I originally hacked it up this way where libdrm intuits what kind
> of buffer it is from the name of the buffer, it's a bad way to design an
> interface.  We should really have a command that marks (an area) of a
> buffer object as being a particular AUB type, and Mesa would use that
> command to mark its buffers as appropriate.  Particularly since we're
> moving to streaming more of our state buffers into larger buffer
> objects.

ok, if our plan is to move into larger buffer, current method is just
hairy. Like I didn't hack up surface state and some others, coz it's 
twisted to convert current batch ending space usage into real bo for 
matching the name for trace block types.

> 
> We also can't commit code to Mesa that just writes into some arbitrary
> file based on an environment variable -- keep in mind that our Mesa
> driver is loaded from the X Server which is running as root.

yeah, I wasn't aware of this, any comment for how to dump the file?

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