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authorTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>2022-10-31 14:43:04 -0400
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>2022-10-31 14:43:04 -0400
commita90afc6730e6c67ad37f4c98a02891a93b4ff971 (patch)
tree724c085433631e142a56c052d667139cba29b4a6 /doc/develop
parent6f38d91158e7e4199753b79e0a25c1a65175aba4 (diff)
parent77bec9e3d8bd2dc307447b92a3d5cefd693a62ad (diff)
Merge branch '2022-10-31-vbe-implement-the-full-firmware-flow'
To quote Simon: This series provides an implementation of VBE from TPL through to U-Boot proper, using VBE to load the relevant firmware stages. It buils a single image.bin file containing all the phases: TPL - initial phase, loads VPL using binman symbols VPL - main firmware phase, loads SPL using VBE parameters SPL - loads U-Boot proper using VBE parameters U-Boot - final firmware phase, where OS booting is processed This series does not include the OS-booting phase. That will be the subject of a future series. The implementation is entirely handled by sandbox. It should be possible to enable this on a real board without much effort, but that is also the subject of a future series.
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-rw-r--r--doc/develop/moveconfig.rst4
-rw-r--r--doc/develop/tests_writing.rst27
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/develop/moveconfig.rst b/doc/develop/moveconfig.rst
index bfb7aff3582..ad8596e6c61 100644
--- a/doc/develop/moveconfig.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/moveconfig.rst
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ First, you must edit the Kconfig to add the menu entries for the configs
you are moving.
Then run this tool giving CONFIG names you want to move.
-For example, if you want to move CONFIG_CMD_USB and CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE,
+For example, if you want to move CONFIG_CMD_USB and CONFIG_TEXT_BASE,
simply type as follows::
- $ tools/moveconfig.py CONFIG_CMD_USB CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE
+ $ tools/moveconfig.py CONFIG_CMD_USB CONFIG_TEXT_BASE
The tool walks through all the defconfig files and move the given CONFIGs.
diff --git a/doc/develop/tests_writing.rst b/doc/develop/tests_writing.rst
index 1ddf7a353a7..bb1145da268 100644
--- a/doc/develop/tests_writing.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/tests_writing.rst
@@ -74,6 +74,33 @@ NOT rely on running with sandbox, but instead should function correctly on any
board supported by U-Boot.
+Mixing Python and C
+-------------------
+
+The best of both worlds is sometimes to have a Python test set things up and
+perform some operations, with a 'checker' C unit test doing the checks
+afterwards. This can be achieved with these steps:
+
+- Add the `UT_TESTF_MANUAL` flag to the checker test so that the `ut` command
+ does not run it by default
+- Add a `_norun` suffix to the name so that pytest knows to skip it too
+
+In your Python test use the `-f` flag to the `ut` command to force the checker
+test to run it, e.g.::
+
+ # Do the Python part
+ host load ...
+ bootm ...
+
+ # Run the checker to make sure that everything worked
+ ut -f bootstd vbe_test_fixup_norun
+
+Note that apart from the `UT_TESTF_MANUAL` flag, the code in a 'manual' C test
+is just like any other C test. It still uses ut_assert...() and other such
+constructs, in this case to check that the expected things happened in the
+Python test.
+
+
How slow are Python tests?
--------------------------