Dear Simon,
Am 25.08.2011 14:58, schrieb Simon Glass:
Hi,
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.
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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)?
regards
Andreas Bießmann