[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 00/10] [RFC v2] quick dump

[Jesse Barnes]

On Sat,  2 Feb 2013 16:07:52 -0800
Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:

> This is my second attempt at winning approval for the series. First one
> was: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1493131/
> 
> In spending the time to rework this tool, I've begun to lose my belief
> in some of the original motivations I had.  Even if you don't want to
> review, but just like (or dislike) what you see, I'd appreciate such
> comments.

I'd like to see it land in i-g-t.  Having the regs defined in a text or
xml file is an improvement over what we have today, and is easier to
extend.  At first the advantage of reg_dumper was that it parsed out
the bitfields of the various regs.  But we didn't keep up with that,
and also haven't kept up with the regs on new platforms as well as we
could.  Text files would make that easier, and xml files might bring
back the bit field parsing, which would be extra nice.

Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>

Jesse