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authorBen Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>2013-02-07 08:35:57 -0800
committerBen Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>2013-02-07 18:22:00 -0800
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README: Add quick_dump info
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
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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 suite. 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
+ [https://www.archlinux.org/] because of the way they package Python. You'll
+ need something like: ./autogen.sh PYTHON_LDFLAGS="-lpython3.3m"
+
+ Note to package maintainers: It is not recommended to package
+ this directory, as the tool is not yet designed for wide usage. If the
+ package is installed via "make install" the users 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