[PATCH intel-gpu-tools 00/10] Upgrade module configuration and packaging (reposted to .cc)

[Gaetan Nadon]

On 12-01-04 09:38 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 15:33, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> On 12-01-04 04:52 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>> While I have the attention of someone versed in buildsystem-fu:
>>> intel-gpu-tools also contains a set of tests for the i915 kernel module
>>> (and the libdrm interface for it). Currently we run them with
>>>
>>> $ make test
>>>
>>> by abusing the automake test rig. Is this ok or is there a better way to
>>> do something like this?
>> I would think so, there is support in Automake to hook test cases and in
>> util-macros to test for things like glib and provide configure option.
>> It is used by several modules by invoking 'make check'. I'll look into
>> that, but I might ask a few questions as I am not familiar with video
>> drivers.
> Originally we've abused make check, but that turned out to be a bad
> idea because make distcheck automatically runs that. And the tests
> check the kernel and not intel-gpu-tools itself, so that didn't make
> much sense. Hence we added make test with a quick hack to run make
> check with a different set of tests (see the test: target in
> tests/Makefile.am).
This makes the intel-gpu-tools package confusing. It is supposed to be
"tools",
not a hardware test suite. I don't really see a way around this.
> One thing I'm wondering is whether we could easily ship these tests in
> some form, so that users could run them from the distro package
> instead of grabbing the sources.
Make it clear what it is: a new "intel-gpu-tests" package  which depends
on intel-gpu-tools. Some executable installed in BINDIR runs test cases
installed in DATADIR. You need to provide ways to select test cases,
instructions on how to report bugs with meaningful data, etc...

The executable must be smart enough to not run anything on non-Intel
hardware or wrong kernel, etc... This would put your test suite in the
public domain and would be run by anyone. Would it be useful or just
generate more work? Would distros be willing to install this? They are
the ones who would initially get the bug reports from their users.

X.Org has an X Test Suite in a git repo to test the protocols.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/test/xts/tree/README

I did try one of the tools on my computer. The windows started shaking
and the window manager eventually fell off the monitor, never to be seen
again. Needless to say, I am not willing to try any test case :-(

>
> Thanks, Daniel