Re: [RFC] [PATCH] quick_dump: A dump utility different than reg_dumper

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 01:58:37PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> On 2012-09-22 11:05, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >And a quick comment on your approach here: I'm not too sure
> >whether the
> >file-base register block approach scales, respectively why exactly
> >this is
> >better than frobbing the reg_dumper tool. Since that one has the
> >concept
> >of register blocks already, too.
> 
> It doesn't scale. It scales better than reg_dumper was my goal and
> point (IMO).
> 
> The exact problem that was trying to be solved is Valleyview (and I
> assure you there will be more such products coming). Valleyview took
> a huge chunk of well known registers, and changed their offsets.
> Modifying this in reg dumper is of course possible, but it's
> tedious. I wanted to have easy to modify text files with an easy
> python front end (the offsets could even be applied in the script
> extremely easily).

If the issue is just the base-address moving around, I think we could
solve that with some refactoring ...
-Daniel
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