Is it possiable to run dm test in local u-boot console?

[Simon Glass]

Hi Treeman,

On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 at 20:06, scxie at jlogic-ic.com <scxie at jlogic-ic.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>      Thanks for your kindly reply.
>      I can understand the design perpose now.
>      I just think the test module is a clean environment to do unit test.
>      Since we're handling a SoC project,
>      we'd like to do IP verification in bare metal environment,
> the test framework of u-boot is a good choice, it's clean, flexible and modularized.
> Many thanks to the maintainers, including you.
>      Maybe we can develop our own cases based on dm.

OK, I hope it goes well.

Regards,
Simon


>
> BRs,
> Treeman
> ________________________________
> scxie at jlogic-ic.com
>
>
> From: Simon Glass
> Date: 2023-01-07 23:52
> To: scxie at jlogic-ic.com
> CC: u-boot
> Subject: Re: Is it possiable to run dm test in local u-boot console?
> Hi Treeman,
>
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 18:20, scxie at jlogic-ic.com <scxie at jlogic-ic.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Maintainers,
> >      I'm an engineer who is porting u-boot in my project.
> >      Now we find almost dm cases in folder test/dm depend on SANDBOX,
> >      is it possiable to run them in local uboot console directly?
> >      A big challenge is that there are various hardware peripherals，
> >      I have no idea to handle it.
>
> Many of the tests are designed to run on sandbox, since they use
> peripheral emulators. There is one board (snow) that is set up to run
> quite a few tests, but not those that need particular peripherals, of
> course.
>
> Many boards run tests in CI using QEMU and it is possible to run those
> tests on a real board using the test harness.
>
> If your board has reliable drivers and they have been tested, then
> there is not much point in running the unit tests. If they pass on
> sandbox then the logic is sound and you are really just checking for
> compiler bugs, which is probably not a good use of time.
>
> I suppose you have seen the documentation [1]
>
> Which board are you using?
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
> [1] https://u-boot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/develop/testing.html
>