Re: [Dri-devel] Diagnostics App

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Nathan Hand wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:37:03PM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote:
> > Is this tool actually intended to be purely a linux-only thing?
> 
> As Brian said:
> 
>   "I think you'll (unfortunately) have to do some OS-specific
>    checks in order to do a worthwhile, complete test."
> 
> Brian was naturally iterating a list of Linux specific tests, because
> that's where the tool would be most useful. If someone wants to write
> a similar list of FreeBSD specific tests, they are most welcome.


Right.

I just tried to quickly list a number of tests that the diag
program should do.  I didn't put a lot of time/thought into
how each test should be implemented.  At least I've spurred some
good comments and feedback on the topic.

I hope Andrew hasn't been discouraged from tackling this project.

-Brian