2011/6/9 Henri Verbeet <[email protected]> > On 9 June 2011 13:01, Michael Mc Donnell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On a side note, failing to get a device means that the d3dx tests are > > always skipped on the testbot? > > > The ones that need a device, yes. The testbot machines are all VMs, so > they don't have real display hardware. For a realistic setup with real > hardware we'd probably need at least 2 different Windows versions (e.g > Win 7 and XP), and at least the current and the previous generation of > both AMD and NVIDIA display hardware. We could probably manage the > hardware costs for that, but I imagine that the setup and admin > overhead would be significant compared to the VMs. >
you can usually find someone on irc (like me) with a windows setup where you can test these patches, until there is some proper testing platform.
