Re: [RFC PATCH] tests/avocado: apply a band aid to aspeed-evb login

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> writes:

> On 8/11/22 13:43, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> This is really a limitation of the underlying console code which
>> doesn't allow us to detect the login: and following "#" prompts
>> because it reads input line wise. By adding a small delay we ensure
>> that the login prompt has appeared so we don't accidentally spaff the
>> shell commands to a confused getty in the guest.
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> Cc: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
>> Cc: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
>
>
> May be you should also add the missing timeout setting ?

That's in another patch - I'll post the whole series now.
>
> Anyhow,
>
> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
>
> Thanks,
>
> C.
>
>> ---
>>   tests/avocado/machine_aspeed.py | 2 ++
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> diff --git a/tests/avocado/machine_aspeed.py
>> b/tests/avocado/machine_aspeed.py
>> index c54da0fd8f..65d38f4efa 100644
>> --- a/tests/avocado/machine_aspeed.py
>> +++ b/tests/avocado/machine_aspeed.py
>> @@ -101,7 +101,9 @@ def do_test_arm_aspeed_buidroot_start(self, image, cpu_id):
>>           self.wait_for_console_pattern('Starting kernel ...')
>>           self.wait_for_console_pattern('Booting Linux on physical CPU ' + cpu_id)
>>           self.wait_for_console_pattern('lease of 10.0.2.15')
>> +        # the line before login:
>>           self.wait_for_console_pattern('Aspeed EVB')
>> +        time.sleep(0.1)
>>           exec_command(self, 'root')
>>           time.sleep(0.1)
>>   


-- 
Alex Bennée