[GSoC 2020]: Doubts related to testing for EPICS7+RTEMS5 (pc386) built using recipe.

[Chris Johns]

On 30/7/20 9:11 am, Mritunjay Sharma wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> I tried to work on the testing part and here's what I did as per my understanding:
> 
> I went inside the epics built by RSB recipe and ran "make runtests". 
> It gave results somewhat like this: 
> 
> "Base.t ........ ok      
> Breaktable.t .. ok  
> DBD.t ......... ok    
> Device.t ...... ok    
> Driver.t ...... ok  
> Function.t .... ok  
> Menu.t ........ ok    
> Recfield.t .... ok    
> Recordtype.t .. ok    
> Registrar.t ... ok  
> Variable.t .... ok  
> All tests successful.
> Files=11, Tests=293,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.05 usr  0.00 sys +  0.40 cusr  0.06
> csys =  0.51 CPU)
> Result: PASS"

What is EPICS running to test the executables? Do they expect a suitable QEMU in
the $PATH? In other words what are the dependencies EPICS required to run these
tests?

> I also downloaded rtems-testing directory

Could you please explain what this means? For me this could mean many things and
I suspect they are not the same as you. Please be provide the needed detail for
me or anyone to understand this statement, that is the URL, git command or
whatever that makes sense. For example there is the personal repo of Joel's,
something EPICS has, the rtems-test command, or you may have found a tar file
somewhere.

Please provide the command line you entered and if there is an error the
relevant pieces of the output.

> and tried to run simulator
> using the tutorial here: https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Simulators/QEMU

This page was updated over 2 years ago and as is the problem with wiki, the
pages can age. I have added a suitable warning to that page. My advice is to
consult the User Manual before the wiki.

> However, I was encountered with this error when I entered: 
> ```./sim-scripts/pc386 -i
> ~/development/rtems/kernels-5/pc-386/i386-rtems5/c/pc386/testsuites/samples/hello.exe```
> 
> Error: ```qemu-system-i386: Initialization of device ide-hd failed: Block node
> is read-only```. 

The User manual has a section titled "Testing". I suggest you refer to that.

> It is very much possible that I am following a wrong approach for testing. 
> I really look forward to you all to help me out with it and
> also share some resources which can help me guide on what exactly I have 
> to proceed with ahead. 

I hope this help. Please let me know how you go.

Chris