Android Support Removed from Intel Graphics Driver Debugging Tool for Linux

Developer Petri Latvala released a new update to the intel-gpu-tools software for debugging the Intel graphics driver on Linux-based operating systems that adds some interesting changes.

For those unfamiliar with intel-gpu-tools, it's a collection of tools for GNU/Linux distribution that allows the debugging the official Intel graphics driver for Intel GPUs. Tools include a GPU hang dumping program, performance microbenchmarks for regression testing the DRM, as well as a performance monitor.

The latest release, intel-gpu-tools 1.21, adds quite a bunch of changes, including automatic loading of DRM modules when opening a DRM device, much-improved GPU quiescing code to more thoroughly flush pending work and old data, as well as production support for the Meson build system while automake is still kept around.

Android support removed due to lack of use and maintenance

The intel-gpu-tools 1.21 release also improves the output of the intel_vbt_decode ...