From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:48:28 +1000 From: David Gibson To: Jon Loeliger Subject: Re: dtc: Add basic testcases for dtc Message-ID: <20070919024828.GD23646@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070918003340.GA30766@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:02:37AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote: > So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled: > > This patch adds a handful of simple testcases for dtc. It adds a dts > > file which should generate the same sample tree as is used for the > > libfdt testcases, and tests invoking dtc on this dts, plus the > > standard batch of libfdt cases on the resulting dtb, which effectively > > checks that the dtb is correct. > > > > Because the test framework assumes each testcase is an executable with > > the right output conventions, we use a little shell script, dtc.sh, as > > a wrapper around dtc itself. It simply invokes dtc and returns a PASS > > or FAIL depending on whether dtc returned an error. > > > > It's not much, but it's a start. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Gibson > > > Applied. > > > NB: Jon, you won't be able to simply git-applymbox this and have it > > work. You'll need to manually add execute permission to tests/dtc.sh > > before git commiting it, since I can't encode the permissions in a > > patch. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it didn't really seem worth > > setting up my own git to pull from just for that. > > No problem. Too bad you can't just use git, though... :-) Hrm. Perhaps I should. I've been working with patches, because it matches how I operate with the kernel, but I guess there would be some advantages to running my own dtc git branch. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson