[igt-dev] [RFC] IGT device scanning and selection

[Kempczynski, Zbigniew]

On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 11:36 +0300, Arkadiusz Hiler wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Seems like a well-written verbalization of some of the ideas that were
> floating around since XDC. Thanks!
> 
> 
> Couple of points that were not captured here:
> 
> 1. We should have an option to set device via .igtrc and IGT_DEVICE env
> variable too. ENV variable would take precedence over .igtrc, and
> --device switch would take precedence over both of the other methods.
> 
> That would help a lot with both automatization and having some defaults
> for local development.

Acked. I'll follow this override path. 

> 
> 
> 2. What to do with drm_open_driver(DRIVER_INTEL) et al?
> 
> Simplest solution would be to just skip if we are --device-ing a card
> that does not meet those "constraints", but we may want to rework those
> a bit?
> 

IMHO --device specification should override this vendor requirement
constraint. Using globals is not pretty solution but allows easily 
adds new device selection without rewritting all tests.

Best,
Zbigniew