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authorEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2009-03-26 17:15:11 -0700
committerEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2009-03-26 17:15:11 -0700
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+This is a collection of tools for development and testing of the Intel DRM
+driver. There are many macro-level test suites that get used against our
+driver, including xtest, rendercheck, piglit, and oglconform, but failures
+from those can be difficult to track down to kernel changes, and many require
+complicated build procedures or specific testing environments to get useful
+results.
+
+Thus, intel-graphics-tools was a project I started to collect some low-level
+tools I intended to build. There are 3 subdirectories:
+
+benchmarks/
+ This should be a collection of useful microbenchmarks. The hope is
+ that people can use these to tune some pieces of DRM code in relevant
+ ways.
+
+tests/
+ This is a set of automated tests to run against the DRM to validate
+ changes. Hopefully this can cover the relevant cases we need to
+ worry about, including backwards compatibility.
+
+tools/
+ This is a collection of debugging tools that had previously been
+ built with the 2D driver but not shipped. Some distros were hacking
+ up the 2D build to ship them. Instead, here's a separate package for
+ people debugging the driver.