[Beagle BSP] How to run all tests on a Beaglebone Black in an automated way

[Chris Johns]

On 28/3/21 8:04 pm, Christian Mauderer wrote:
> On 28/03/2021 03:16, Chris Johns wrote:
>> On 28/3/21 6:16 am, Ahamed Husni wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I ran the hello program on the BBB using a bootable SD card. The SD card has two
>>> partitions.
>>>
>>>   1. BOOT - primary, bootable, FAT32
>>>   2. ROOT - primary, ext4
>>>
>>> The BOOT partition has the following files.
>>>
>>>   1. uEnv.txt
>>>   2. rtems-app.img
>>>   3. Device Tree Blob (am335x-boneblack.dtb)
>>>
>>> I want to run all the tests on the BBB. Is there any other way to do this?
>>>
>>>      You have to get the BBB to fetch exes from a ftftp server (provided inside
>>>      rtems-test) and provide some automated power control to the board.
>>>      - Dr. Joel (in Discord)
>>>
>>
>> Please have a look at ..
>>
>> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/testing/configuration.html
>> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/testing/tftp.html
>>
>> Chris
> 
> Like Chris pointed out, the testing documentation is a good start point if you
> want to automate running tests.

Thanks. We are talking about an online tut session to work through running the
tests on real hardware as a practical demonstration. I am not sure how we run
this and what we need to handle doing this.

> Beneath using TFTP for the Beagle you could also use a JTAG debugger to load the
> application if you have one. As far as I know, the tester is quite flexible
> regarding how to load an application.
> 
> If your JTAG debugger has an GDB interface, you could use about the following
> commands for beagle (you have to adapt "monitor reset" to whatever causes a
> reset with your JTAG hardware):
> 
> define reset
>     echo -- Reset target and wait for U-Boot to start kernel.\n
>     monitor reset
>     # RTEMS starts at this address.
>     tbreak *0x80000000
>     # Linux starts here.
>     tbreak *0x82000000
>     continue
> 
>     echo -- Disable watchdog.\n
>     set *(uint32_t*)0x44e35048=0xAAAA
>     while (*(uint32_t*)0x44e35034 != 0)
>     end
>     set *(uint32_t*)0x44e35048=0x5555
>     while (*(uint32_t*)0x44e35034 != 0)
>     end
> 
>     echo -- Overwrite kernel with application to debug.\n
>     load
> end

Nice. This would be a great example for the user manual :)

Chris