[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 12/12] README: Add quick_dump info

Ben Widawsky ben at bwidawsk.net
Thu Feb 7 19:39:37 CET 2013


Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
---
 README | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 0ec53fb..5ede794 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -75,6 +75,21 @@ tools/
 	These tools generally must be run as root, safe for the ones that just
 	decode dumps.
 
+tools/quick_dump
+	Quick dumper is a python tool built with SWIG bindings to
+	important libraries exported by the rest of the tool quite. The tool
+	itself is quite straight forward, and should also be a useful example
+	for others wishing to write python based i915 tools.
+
+	As of writing, the build is sort of broken in Arch because of
+	the way they package Python. You'll need something like:
+	LDFLAGS="-lpython3.3m"
+
+	Note to package maintainers: It is not recommended to package
+	this directory, as the tool is not yet designed for such usage. If the
+	package is installed via "make install" the user will have to
+	set their python library path appropriately.
+
 debugger/
 	This tool is to be used to do shader debugging. It acts like a
 	debug server accepting connections from debug clients such as
-- 
1.8.1.2




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