Re: [igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t v2] tests: Introduce i915 directory

Chris Wilson
2018-10-19T10:12:38Z

Quoting Petri Latvala (2018-10-19 11:02:18)
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:48:54AM +0300, Arkadiusz Hiler wrote:
> > We can already move all the tests with distinct prefixes: gem_, gen3_
> > and i915_.
> >
> > pm_ and drv_ tests will follow in batches, so we can do the
> > adjustments in the reporting/filtering layer of the CI system.
> >
> > v2: Fix test-list.txt generation with meson
> >
> > Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Cc: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala@intel.com>
> > Cc: Martin Peres <martin.peres@linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler@intel.com>
>
> Worth stating out loud why there's such a load of bovine excrement
> needed for the autotools parts:
>
> Test binaries all need to be in the same directory. After installing
> it's easy to achieve but we also support running stuff from the build
> directory directly. Ergo, we can't just make the tests/i915 directory
> self-contained.

What are you talking about? Maybe explaining how amdgpu/ doesn't work,
but we haven't given it any special treatment and you can run the
compile binaries and it installs into the same targetdir as we haven't
told it otherwise.
-Chris