Hi Mike, On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 02:43, Simon Glass wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 18:54, Simon Glass wrote: >>>> This adds simple command-line parssing to sandbox. The idea is that it >>>> sets up the state with options provided, and this state can then be >>>> queried as needed later. >>> >>> i'm not seeing the usefulness of the "state" code >> >> Not yet - for now it just holds the command line flags and anything >> parsed from the command line. Ultimately it will hold test state, but >> it is early days on that yet. > > i think we should split command line parsing from state. the former > is clearly desirable $now. > >>>> + "\t-c <command>\tExecute U-Boot command\n" >>> >>> i don't think this is necessary. i simply do: >>> ./u-boot <<<$'bdinfo\nreset\n' >> >> Well it's not possible ATM anyway since board_init_f() never returns. > > right. i was speaking in general. > >> Does your method use an expect script to check that the right result >> is obtained? > > yes & no. i wrote up a tiny test quite that does `./u-boot ... >& > test.out`, and then compares test.out to a test.in file to make sure > things worked. it could be made to use expect instead. > > however, Marek (or maybe Jean) pointed out DUTS to me, so i stopped > working on that and switched to trying to learn that framework so we > could use what already existed rather than writing something from > scratch which i imagine Wolfgang (rightly so) would barf all over.
Yes, looking forward to finding out more about that. Whatever we do for test harness needs to avoid the re-invention of wheels. > >> I am not going to get back to sandbox for a few weeks now - my next >> task is to get it booting from simulated SPI/MMC and see what tests >> can be written against that. It will become clearer then I think. > > this is a bit ambiguous ... you want to test booting from SPI flash > and from a card in a MMC slot ? or you want to test booting from a > card in a MMC slot connected via SPI ? > -mike > I mean boot by loading some data, etc. from SPI-attached SPI flash and then loading a kernel from an SDMMC-attached MMC card and jumping to it. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
