[U-Boot] [ANN] U-Boot v2016.09 is released

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:32:07PM +0200, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Am 12.09.2016 um 18:21 schrieb Tom Rini:
> > 
> > Another thing I'd like to call out, and ask for a little help with too
> > is automated testing.  The framework in test/py/test.py can be used on
> > real hardware and Stephen Warren has been doing a good job having things
> > run on Tegra boards.  You can see his scripts here[1].  I've setup
> > locally some of my boards (some TI, RPi3, A20-OLinuXino-Lime2) and I'm
> > looking at adding more still, so long as I can update U-Boot in a way
> > that does not involve the console.  You can see my scripts here[2] and
> > I'm cleaning things up and pushing them back up to Stephen.  But there's
> > always more to do and test.  Is anyone else out there running this on
> > real hardware, or would like to set this up?  Has anyone out there
> > gotten this hooked up with qemu?
> > 
> 
> I have scripts for running tests on MIPS Malta in Qemu [1]. Currently
> the only non-working tests are test_sleep and test_net_tftpboot on Malta
> 64Bit.
> 
> I think it's possible to create a generic ConsoleQemu class but I hadn't
> time yet to try this.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/danielschwierzeck/u-boot-test-hooks

Ah cool.  I think between that and what Michal sent me off-list throwing
together some helper scripts to fit into Stephens hook scripts should be
doable.  The only thing I'm not sure about, wrt doing a class is the
amount of flags that qemu needs (and how much they vary) compared with
sandbox.  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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