[U-Boot] DUTS without hardware

[U-Boot] DUTS without hardware

[Mike Frysinger]

so u-boot has DUTS for testing:
  http://www.denx.de/wiki/DUTS/

it seems to have a lot of assumptions like connecting to u-boot over
the serial port.  i'd like to extend this to support the new sandbox
target so we can do automated testing of common code without needing
any external hardware at all.

before i start digging too more, is this going to be painful to the
point of not being feasible ?
-mike

[U-Boot] DUTS without hardware

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Mike,

> so u-boot has DUTS for testing:
>   http://www.denx.de/wiki/DUTS/
>
> it seems to have a lot of assumptions like connecting to u-boot over
> the serial port.  i'd like to extend this to support the new sandbox
> target so we can do automated testing of common code without needing
> any external hardware at all.
>
> before i start digging too more, is this going to be painful to the
> point of not being feasible ?

This should be doable just fine.  Intentionally there is a layer in
place to implement different such "context" setups[1].  The code still
needs more cleanup and simplification, so please don't give up too early
;)  From a design perspective, this surely fits into the original goals.

So yes, please try to go forward in this direction, we very much
appreciate that.

Thanks
  Detlev

[1] git.denx.de/?p=duts.git;a=tree;f=config

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