On Thu, 5 May 2016 14:29:30 +0100 Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 03:11:32PM +0200, Jan Viktorin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > this patch set introduces a mechanism to include a resource (in general a > > blob) > > into the test binary. This allows to make tests less dependent on the target > > testing environment. The first use case is testing of PCI bus scan by > > changing > > the hard-coded path (/sys/bus/pci/devices) to something different and > > provide > > a fake tree of devices with the test. It can help with testing of > > device-tree > > parsing as I've proposed in [1] where such mechanism was missing at that > > time. > > I'd like to use such framework for the SoC infra testing as well. > > > > The patch set introduces a struct resource into the app/test. The resource > > is > > generic to include any kind of binary data. The binary data can be created > > in > > C or linked as an object file (created by objcopy). I am not sure where to > > place the objcopy logic and how to perform guessing of the objcopy arguments > > as they are pretty non-standard. > > > > To include a complex resource (a file hierarchy), the last patch implements > > an archive extraction logic. So, it is possible to include a tar archive and > > unpack it before a test starts. Any ideas how to do this in a better way are > > welcome. > > > > [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.networking.dpdk.devel/36545 > > > > Regards > > Jan Viktorin > > > BTW: It looks like your patch has a dependency on the 17-patch dev cleanup > set from > David, [and now on the header include bug fix I submitted yesterday too], so > you should probably note that in any future revs of the patch you do. Save > some head-scratching from those of us testing it out. :-) Hello, well, the patch set should be independent on that cleanup, so I take it as a bug report. There should be no dependency, sorry. I'll fix it and repost. Thanks Jan > > Thanks, > /Bruce > -- Jan Viktorin E-mail: Viktorin at RehiveTech.com System Architect Web: www.RehiveTech.com RehiveTech Brno, Czech Republic
