Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] support/testing: ltp-testsuite: replace runltp by kirk

From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
Cc: Julien Olivain via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>,
	 Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] support/testing: ltp-testsuite: replace runltp by kirk
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:47:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aWlEAhChn8gSm7QZ@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251230174958.GA496221@pevik>

Hello,

On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 06:49:58PM +0100, Petr Vorel wrote:

> Yeah. I don't like it either. Specially LTP tests themselves does not require
> anything (single test is either binary written in C statically linked LTP
> libraries, we also have few POSIX compatible shell based tests which require
> barely minimum of external dependencies), it can be run as is.
> 
> ATM we have list of tests in so called runtest files [1], which contain list of
> tests (each line is single test: "test_label binary/script optional_arguments"),
> therefore anything which can remove the first parameter and execute the rest can
> be LTP runner. i.e. Buildroot custom script could be really minimal.

I don't think I would want Buildroot to carry its own custom script
for this.

> runltp does quite a few other things but these who need them should really move
> to kirk. Also we plan to implement in kirk and ltx running tests in parallel.
> That will save a lot of runtime.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/tree/master/runtest
> 
> > One option would as suggested by Petr to use kirk in its intended mode,
> > with kirk running on the host, and connected over SSH to the target to
> > run tests.
> 
> > On the other hand, it was a lot more simple/convenient to be able to
> > just run a simple shell script on the target to run the test suite.
> 
> Would it be possible to have both? Vendor runltp for local use and package kirk
> as a host package (+ ltx as normal package)?

I'm not sure what you're suggesting as "both"? Do you mean, having a
simple test runner that we can run directly on the target, but also
offer the possibility of building/installing kirk to run the test
suite from the host?

I'm not sure what ltx is in this context.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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