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

[Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, August 25, 2011 04:56:39 PM Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday, August 25, 2011 09:56:02 Andreas Bie?mann wrote:
> > Am 25.08.2011 14:58, schrieb Simon Glass:
> > > Summary: I am quite keen on improving the test infrastructure in
> > > U-Boot. I would like to have a test suite that can run in a minute or
> > > two on a Linux PC and test all non-platform code.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > To get around this I propose that we create a new ?native?
> > > architecture. We write code in ?arch/native? which can run under
> > > Linux. Since all the non-platform code will happily run under this new
> > > ?architecture?, we can then write tests which run quickly under x86
> > > Linux (or another Linux for that matter). This U-Boot 'architecture'
> > > should build natively on any 32/64-bit Linux machine since it just
> > > uses standard Linux system calls. Calls to Linux would be entirely
> > > within this arch/native subdirectory.
> > 
> > why don't use some unit testing framework like cunit, or ceedling (which
> > can do HW mocks easily)?
> 
> these testing frameworks wont make any difference to what Simon is
> proposing. he is focusing on getting u-boot to build & run on your desktop
> machine. after that is done, we can talk about the actual tests and
> harnesses (although anything that requires ruby should immediately be
> disqualified imo :P). -mike

Definitelly agree with the RUBY part.