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

[Michal Simek]

On 15.9.2016 13:24, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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!
> 

It is just the same style how to get a console out of qemu.

Some sort of integration can be good but the most problematic part
to decide what qemu version to use and if permit also out of tree qemu, etc.
But having a guidance how to do it would be good.

Thanks,
Michal


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