[U-Boot] RFC: Testing U-Boot Part 1

Graeme Russ
2011-08-29T23:03:03Z

Hi Simon,

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Graeme,
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> On 27/08/11 10:25, Simon Glass wrote:
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, August 25, 2011 23:32:38 Simon Glass wrote:

[snip]

>>
>> I don't consider having to set up a tftp server as a bad thing - Quite the
>> opposite really. There is plenty of network code in U-Boot that will
>> benefit from testing under the sandbox target because it is much easier to
>> debug. And there will be minimal impact on U-Boot code (just a sandbox
>> 'Ethernet' driver is all that will be needed)
>>
>> I am reminded of when the R&D department that developed to eNET board were
>> doing the firmware development before the first prototypes were available -
>> The created a HAL which used pcap from memory. I wasn't part of that team,
>> so I really don't know the details...
>
> Yes, sounds good, will put you down for the network testing part :-)

Arghh - Rope, meet neck. Neck, meet rope ;)

>
> I will work on a basic patch set and try to get it to the list early next week.
>

Sounds good

Regards,

Graeme