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| author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2013-08-12 14:02:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2013-08-12 14:09:55 +0200 |
| commit | a7433ec9eebfb0e5a40189943764c0cf1555dab3 (patch) | |
| tree | d377c346fe228cde2292230ac4ead07d14734e3d /README | |
| parent | 6877877558870c9c245e7fedcbd1d66ed2206d83 (diff) | |
tests: scrap old automake based kernel test runner
Upstream broke our dynamic creation of the testlist, and I think
adding stupid .tests suffixes everywhere just to appease upstream
autohell tools isn't that great. So scrap it, we can use piglit
instead.
References: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-debbugs/2013-06/msg00000.html
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 24 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
@@ -24,17 +24,10 @@ tests/ changes. Hopefully this can cover the relevant cases we need to worry about, including backwards compatibility. - Run this tests with "make test" as root from this directory. Note that - no other drm clients (X server) may run. - - "make test" only runs a default set of tests and is useful for - regression testing. Other tests not run are: - - tests that might hang the gpu, see HANG in Makefile.am - - gem_stress, a stress test suite. Look at the source for all the - various options. - - testdisplay is only run in the default mode. testdisplay has tons of - options to test different kms functionality, again read the source for - the details. + Note: The old automake based testrunner had to be scraped due to + upstream changes which broke dynamic creation of the test list. Of + course it is still possible to directly run tests, even when not always + limiting tests to specific subtests (like piglit does). The more comfortable way to run tests is with piglit. First grab piglit from: @@ -60,6 +53,15 @@ tests/ for some useful options. + Piglit only runs a default set of tests and is useful for regression + testing. Other tests not run are: + - tests that might hang the gpu, see HANG in Makefile.am + - gem_stress, a stress test suite. Look at the source for all the + various options. + - testdisplay is only run in the default mode. testdisplay has tons of + options to test different kms functionality, again read the source for + the details. + lib/ Common helper functions and headers used by the other tools. |