On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 7:48 AM Heiko Schocher <h...@denx.de> wrote: > Am 17.02.2020 um 17:04 schrieb Wolfgang Denk: > > In message > > <CAHp75VfuzMm=cpj86gspriiv+aaybs+jfdkp2rfnmyhsmvo...@mail.gmail.com> you > > wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 5:09 PM Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote: > >>> In message > >>> <cahp75vduy7zjfkc4yv-ktt1aekg9ggy6psjaeokgo9ectqx...@mail.gmail.com> you > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>> git bisect is the usual way to figure out the culprit. > >>>>> > >>>>> Too much work to do this way. > >>> > >>> If you find bisecting is too much work you probably still do it > >>> manually. Why don't you use tbot to automize such boring and time > >>> consuming tasks? > >> > >> Bisection time something about 10%, while 90% is flashing the board > >> and, given the result, triggering either bad or good next cycle. > > > > Yes, and this is exactly what tbot was made for - automating such > > repeating, boring activities. It is wasted life time to do this > > manually. > > Yes, that is one benefit if you use tbot, see git bisect help: > > http://tbot.tools/modules/tc.html?highlight=bisect#tbot.tc.git.GitRepository.bisect > > You only have to pass to the function the good commit as string and > a tbot python function which tests the current commit. This test > function now can call other functions like run a complete build of > current source, copy the resulting images let say to a tftp directory, > install the new images on the device, reboot it and run tests on the U-Boot > comamndline on the real board ... > > So using tbot for the complete development process makes a lot of sense, > also as you have at the end a complete setup for testing your board (not > only U-Boot also linux or other commandline based machines are possible > to automate), it is easy to start a CI ... as tbot is a commandline tool > a simple cron job is enough .. or you can integrate it easily into jenkins, > buildbot, gitlab CI runner ... whatever CI you use... > > If you want to get help setting up tbot, feel free to ask me or Harald > directly or on the tbot mailinglist:
How the feed back line is organized? I mean how host system will know that a) we done flash correctly? b) the booted image is bad or good? -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
