Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: update mmiotrace.txt

[Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:16:56 -0800
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> 
> Fix typos, spellos, hyphenation, line lengths.
> 
> BTW:  are there some userspace tools?  There is a reference to
> some at the wiki page, but there are no tools listed there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
> ---
>  Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.txt |   15 ++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>

Yes, there are some shady user space tools. I moved the
references to the mmiotrace developer page:
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MmioTraceDeveloper
People recording traces do not need the tools, so I
removed them from the MmioTrace page to clarify it.

Here "developer" includes people analyzing the traces.
I added a note to the MmioTrace wiki page.

I'm not actively developing nor even maintaining those
tools anymore. I guess hardcore developers do not even need
them, they prefer reading hex. But, the tools should still be
in a working order. The documentation may be a bit scattered.

The tools are in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~pq/mmio-trace/
and the Rules-ng parts are in
http://nouveau.cvs.sourceforge.net/nouveau/rules-ng/
More information is in the wiki.


Thanks.

-- 
Pekka Paalanen
http://www.iki.fi/pq/