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[Andrew Zonenberg <azonenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question for Orson or anybody else who knows PNS internals well. 

PNS_ROUTING_SETTINGS::SetLayerPair() currently sets m_layerTop to always
be > m_layerBottom, which is the opposite of how it's done elsewhere in
pcbnew. Is this a bug or intended behavior?

On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 16:00 -0400, Andrew Zonenberg wrote:
> So I'm starting to work on adding full blind/buried/micro via support to
> the P&S router. My previous patches allow the router to correctly
> shove/avoid special vias but not create them.
> 
> As of now I have hotkeys created in the tool framework for instantiating
> blind/buried vias, along with adding a via-type field to PNS_LINE_PLACER
> so it knows what type of via it should be creating.
> 
> There's still a few more things I need to fix before I'll have a patch.
> 
> 1) Right now PNS_LINE_PLACER only stores the current layer, not the
> layer pair. The existing code hard-codes (0, MAX_CU_LAYERS - 1) all over
> the place, which needs to get fixed.
> 
> 2) My current code doesn't check if blind/buried/microvias are allowed
> by global settings. 
> 
> I should have a patch ready to submit in a day or so, depending on how
> much time I spend cleaning up the lab and doing homework/thesis stuff
> instead of kicad ;)
> 
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Andrew Zonenberg
PhD student, security group
Computer Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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