[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] test: py: Disable sleep test for qemu targets

[Michal Simek]

On 1.12.2017 23:44, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 10:07:54AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 12/01/2017 08:19 AM, Michal Simek wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 1.12.2017 16:06, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/01/2017 03:46 PM, Michal Simek wrote:
>>>>> Qemu for arm32/arm64 has a problem with time setup.
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't it be preferable to fix the root cause?
>>>
>>> Definitely that would be the best and IIRC I have tried to convince our
>>> qemu guy to do that but they have never done that.
>>
>> What is the exact failure condition? Is it simply that the test is still
>> slightly too strict about which delays it accepts, or is sleep outright
>> broken?
>>
>> You can use command-line option -k to avoid some tests. For example "-k not
>> sleep". That way, we don't have to hard-code the dependency into the test
>> source. Depending on the root cause (issue in U-Boot, or issue in just your
>> local version of qemu, or something that will never work) this might be
>> better?
> 
> Even with the most recent relaxing of the sleep test requirements, I can
> still (depending on overall system load) have 'sleep' take too long, on
> QEMU.  I think it might have been half a second slow, but I don't have
> the log handy anymore.  Both locally and in travis we -k not sleep all
> of the qemu instances.

ok. By locally do you mean just using -k not sleep?
Or is there any other way how to put this to
uboot-test-hooks/py/<hostname>/*.py

We are talking about one test here but there could be different issues
with different tests in connection to qemu.

Thanks,
Michal