[U-Boot] RFC: Testing U-Boot Part 1

[Anton Staaf]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, August 25, 2011 08:58:00 Simon Glass wrote:
>> Proposal
>> ========
>
> for people who might be familiar with the barebox boot loader, Simon is
> basically proposing the same thing as barebox's "sandbox" target.
>
> to avoid confusion/fragmentation in this area, and since the name is a large
> part bike shedding, i propose we adopt the same name that barebox has.  that
> way we can sanely use the same term when comparing/contrasting.
>
> from the barebox website:
>        Sandbox
>
>        If you develop features for Barebox, you can use the 'sandbox' target
>        which compiles Barebox as a POSIX application in the Linux userspace: it
>        can be started like a normal command and even has network access
>        (tun/tap). Files from the local filesytem can be used to simulate
>        devices.

Makes good sense.

>> Comments
>> ========
>> At this early stage I am looking for comments on the concept - how
>> useful it is and how best to implement it.
>
> i certainly think it's a worthwhile exercise, especially if it gets us to the
> point where we can do `make check` and have confidence in our common code
> changes not being completely f-ed up.

Indeed, I am very excited about this as well.  :)

Thanks,
    Anton

> -mike
>
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