Hi Stephen,
2015-12-16 17:27 GMT+01:00 Stephen Warren swarren@wwwdotorg.org:
On 12/16/2015 08:11 AM, Michal Simek wrote:
On 9.12.2015 17:32, Stephen Warren wrote:
On 12/02/2015 03:18 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
This tool aims to test U-Boot by executing U-Boot shell commands using the console interface. A single top-level script exists to execute or attach to the U-Boot console, run the entire script of tests against it, and summarize the results. Advantages of this approach are:
- Testing is performed in the same way a user or script would interact with U-Boot; there can be no disconnect.
- There is no need to write or embed test-related code into U-Boot
itself. It is asserted that writing test-related code in Python is simpler and more flexible that writing it all in C.
- It is reasonably simple to interact with U-Boot in this way.
A few simple tests are provided as examples. Soon, we should convert as many as possible of the other tests in test/* and test/cmd_ut.c too.
In the future, I hope to publish (out-of-tree) the hook scripts, relay control utilities, and udev rules I will use for my own HW setup.
I finally got permission to publish these. Examples are at: https://github.com/swarren/uboot-test-hooks
Interesting. What's the normal setup which you have for the board? I see from your description that you use numato usb relay - I expect one with more channels for reset. Then you are able to control boot mode. Is it also via the same relay? How do you power up the board?
In my current setup I leave the board on all the time (or rather, manually turn on the power when I'm about to run the tests). Automating control of the power source is a step I'll take later.
ok.
For Tegra, there are two important signals: reset and "force recovery".
Do you mean that these both signals are just connected out of chip?
Each of these has a separate relay, so the system currently uses 2 relays per target board. The numato relay board I own has 8 relays, although there are a number of different models.
ok
On Tegra, when reset is pulsed:
- If force-recovery is connected, the SoC enters USB recovery mode. In
this state, SW can be downloaded over USB into RAM and executed.
Is this bootrom feature? For xilinx boards there is all the time jtag available. It means download can be done via jtag instead.
- If force-recovery is not connected, the SoC boots normally, from SW
stored in flash (eMMC, SPI, ...)
The example scripts always use recovery mode to download U-Boot into RAM rather than writing it to flash first and then resetting. This saves wear cycles on the flash, but does mean the download happens in the "reset" rather than "flash" script, which may make the examples a bit different than for some other SoCs.
Are you testing all boot modes? Because I expect these needs to be tested too. Do you use SPL? If yes, are you going to test it in this way?
Finally, the example scripts support two boards; my home/laptop dev setup that uses a Numato relay board to control the signals to the board I use there, and my work desktop dev setup that uses our "PM342" debug board to controll the signals. The latter works logically the same as the numato relay board, except it contains electronic switches driven by an FTDI chip.
I expect this is FTDI chip on the target right?
thanks, Michal